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T H E L O E B C L A S S I C A L L I B R A R Y F O U N D E D BY J A M E S L O E B 1911

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JEFFREY H E N D E R S O N

G R E E K E P I C F R A G M E N T S

L C L 4 9 7

G R E E K E P I C FRAGMENTS

F R O M T H E S E V E N T H T O T H E F I F T H C E N T U R I E S B C

E D I T E D A N D T R A N S L A T E D B Y

M A R T I N L . W E S T

HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS C A M B R I D G E , M A S S A C H U S E T T S

L O N D O N , E N G L A N D 2003

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C O N T E N T S

Preface vii

Abbreviations and Symbols ix

Introduction 2

Select Bibliography 36

T H E THEBAN C Y C L E Oedipodea 38 Thebaid 42 Epigoni 54 Alcmeonis 58

T H E TROJAN C Y C L E Cypria 64 Aethiopis 108 The Little Iliad 118 The Sack ofllion 142 The Returns 152 Telegony. Thesprotis 164

POEMS ON H E R A C L E S AND T H E S E U S Creophylus, The Capture of Oichalia 172 Pisander, Heraclea 176 Panyassis, Heraclea 188 Theseis 216

G E N E A L O G I C A L AND ANTIQUARIAN EPICS Eumelus (Titanomachia, Corinthiaca, Europia) 220

C O N T E N T S

Cinaethon 250 Asius 254 Hegesinous 262 Chersias 264 Vanais 266 Minyas 268 Carmen Naupactium 274 Phoronis 282

U N P L A C E D F R A G M E N T S (mostly ascribed to "Homer") 286

Comparative Numeration 299 Index 309

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P R E F A C E

I n the old Loeb Classical Library edition by H . G. Evelyn-White, which originally appeared in 1914, the poems and fragments of Hesiod were coupled with the Homeric Hymns and Epigrams, the remains of the Epic Cycle and other poems associated with Homer s name (including the Battle of Frogs and Mice), and the Contest of Homer and Hesiod. This material is now being distributed across three new volumes, each of which wi l l contain a considerable amount of additional matter. I n the present one the section dealing with the Epic Cycle has been expanded to take in more or less all the remains of early epic down to and including Panyassis.

Dealing with fragmentary works is never as satisfactory as having complete ones. The fragments of the early epics, however, are in one way more rewarding than (say) those of the lyric poets. This is because most of them are cited for their mythological content rather than to illustrate some lexical usage, and often this helps us to build up an idea of the larger whole. For most of the poems of the Epic Cycle, at least, we are able to get a fair notion of their structure and contents.

I have edited and arranged the texts according to my own judgment, but relied on existing editions for information about manuscript readings. The nature of the Loeb

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series precludes the provision of the fullest philological detail about the sources of fragments, variant readings, or scholars' conjectures. I have nevertheless tried to ensure that the reader is alerted to the significant textual uncertainties, and, in the case of fragments quoted by ancient authors, supplied with sufficient context to appreciate the purpose for which each one is adduced.

I owe a particular debt of gratitude to Dr. Dirk Obbink for allowing me to see and cite the forthcoming second volume of his monumental edition of Philodemus, On Piety, a work well known as an important source of poetic fragments.

Martin L . West Oxford, May 2002

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A B B R E V I A T I O N S A N D S Y M B O L S

CAG M . Hayduck and others, Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca (Berlin, 1882-1909)

CEG P. A. Hansen, Carmina Epigraphica Graeca (Berlin and New York, 1983-1989)

CQ Classical Quarterly FGrHist Felix Jacoby, Die Fragmente der griech

ischen Historiker (Berlin and Leiden, 1923-1958)

FHG Carolus et Theodorus Müller, Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum (Paris, 1841-1873)

GRBS Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies HSCP Harvard Studies in Classical Philology JHS Journal of Hellenic Studies LIMC Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Clas-

sicae (Zurich and Munich, 1981-1999) Mus. Helv. Museum Helveticum NGG Nachrichten der Gesellschaft der Wissen

schaften zu Göttingen O C D 3 The Oxford Classical Dictionary, third edi

tion (Oxford, 1996) PMG Poetae Melici Graeci, ed. D . L . Page (Ox

ford, 1962)

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PMGF Poetarum Melicorum Graecorum Fragmenta, ed. M . Davies (Oxford, 1991)

RE Paulys Real-Encyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft (Stuttgart, 1894-1980)

Rh. Mus. Rheinisches Museum SVF H . von Arnim, Stoicorum Veterum Frag

menta (Leipzig, 1903-1905) TAPA Transactions of the American Philological

Association ZPE Zeitschrifi fur Papyrologie und Epigraphik

[ ] words restored where the manuscript is damaged

H J letters deleted by scribe < > editorial insertion { } editorial deletion t t corruption in text * (attached to a fragment number) uncertain

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I N T R O D U C T I O N

The term "epic" has sometimes been applied to all early hexameter poetry, including, for example, the works of Hesiod and Empedocles. I t is now usual to restrict it to narrative poetry about events some distance in the past. Within this category there is a distinction to be made between poetry that is primarily concerned with the narration of a particular heroic episode or series of episodes and poetry concerned with the long-term history of families or peoples, their affiliations and relationships. I n the first type, which we may call heroic poetry, the action extends over a few days, a few weeks, or at most a period of years. In the second, which we may call genealogical and antiquarian poetry, i t extends over many generations.

The distinction is one of convenience, and it is not absolute, as poems of either sort may contain elements of the other. I n Homer we find here and there genealogies going back for six or eight generations, and in the pseudo-Hesiodic Catalog of Women, the prime example of genealogical-antiquarian poetry, we find summary heroic narratives attached to individuals as they appear in the genealogies.

Because the archaic epics were redactions of traditional material, there was not always such a clear-cut sense of authorship as there was with lyric, elegy, or iambus. A

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few of the later epics, such as Eugammon's Telegony and Panyassis' Heraclea, were firmly associated with a specific author, but most tended to be cited anonymously by title, and there was often real uncertainty about the authors identity. Many writers throughout antiquity preferred not to opt for a name but to use expressions such as "the poet of the Cypria."

H E R O I C P O E M S . T H E E P I C C Y C L E

The identifiable poems of the heroic category either belonged to one of the two great cycles, the Theban and the Trojan, or were concerned with the exploits of one of the two great independent heroes, Heracles and Theseus. Other epics—for example a self-contained Argonautica— must once have existed at least in oral tradition, but i f they were ever written down they seem to have disappeared at an early date.

Sometime in the fourth century B C an "epic cycle" (eViKos KVK\O<S) was drawn up, probably in Peripatetic circles. I t was in effect a reading fist, comprising at least the Trojan epics, and perhaps a wider collection. The poems were to be treated as a corpus which could be read in sequence to yield a more or less continuous story (though in fact some of them overlapped in subject matter). The Epic Cycle that Proclus described in his Chrestomathy began with a theogony, so that its narrative extended from the beginning of the world to the end of the heroic age.1

The epics were well known in the classical period, and poets such as Stesichorus, Pindar, and the tragedians drew

l Photius, Bibl. 319a21-30.

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on them extensively. Later they fell out of favor. The Hellenistic artists who depicted scenes from Troy and who named Cyclic poems and poets on their works were probably already using prose summaries, not the originals.2 Yet some of the poems appear to have been still available in the second century AD to certain bookish writers such as Pausanias and Athenaeus.

The Theban Cycle

The Theban and Trojan Wars were the two great military enterprises of the mythical age, the wars which according to Hesiod (Works and Days 161-165) brought to an end the race of the heroes who are called demigods. The poet of the Iliad knows of the earlier war and refers to it in several places.

The legend tells in fact of two separate Theban wars: the failed assault on Thebes by the Seven, and the successful assault by their sons, the so-called Epigoni. The first, which resulted from the quarrel between the sons of Oedipus, was the more famous and the deeper rooted in tradition. It was the subject of the Thebaid. The second, the subject of the Epigoni, was a later invention, a pallid re-

2 The works in question are the mass-produced Macedonian "Homeric cups," dating from the third to second centuries B C , and the miniature relief plaques from the Roman area, such as the Borgia and Capitoline tablets, which are from the time of Augustus or Tiberius. On the cups see U. Sinn, Die homerischen Becher (Berlin, 1979); on the plaques A. Sadurska, Les tables Iliaques (Warsaw, 1964); Nicholas Horsfall, "Stesichorus at Bovillae? JHS 99 (1979), 26-49.

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flection of the first war, on which some of its details were clearly modelled. I f we can trust the information given in the Contest of Homer and Hesiod, each of these epics was about 7,000 lines in length, something under half the size of the Iliad.

There were two others on associated subjects. The Oedipodea, said to have been of 6,600 lines, told the story of Oedipus; the Alcmeonis, of unknown length, told of Alcmaon, son of the seer Amphiaraus.3 AJcmaon became notorious (like Orestes) for killing his mother, which he did because of her role in the first Theban war.

To judge by what we know of their contents, the poems of the Theban cycle breathed a different spirit from the Iliad and Odyssey. With their emphasis on family quarrels and killings, vengeful exiles, and grimly ruthless women and warriors, they have reminded more than one scholar of the world of Germanic saga.

Oedipodea The Borgia plaque attributes this poem to Cinaethon. Of its contents we know only two details: that the Sphinx was represented as a devouring monster, to whom even the regent Creon's son fell victim, and that Oedipus' children, Polynices, Eteocles, and their two sisters, were not the product of his incestuous union with his mother (as in the tragedians) but of a previous marriage to one Euryganea. We do not even know what his mother was called in the poem, whether Epicaste as in the earliest reference to the

3 Alcmaon is the epic form of the name, Alcmeon the Attic, Alcman the Doric; Alcmaeon is a false spelling. The poem was anciently cited as the Alcmeonis ('AAK/u.e&wi?), though later manuscripts generally give 'KkKfj-auoviq.

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story {Odyssey 11.271), Iocaste (Jocasta) as in tragedy, or something else again.

Thebaid The opening line is preserved (fr. 1), and it indicates that the war was seen from the Argive viewpoint rather than (as in Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes) from the Theban. I t was thus a story of disastrous failure, not of salvation from peril.

Polynices and Eteocles were doomed to their fatal dispute by curses which their father laid on them. The fragments of the poem describe two occasions of his wrath and two versions of the curse (frs. 2 and 3): the first, that the brothers should be forever quarrelling, the second, more specific, that they should die at one another's hand. According to later authors they initially made an amicable arrangement that each would rule Thebes in alternate years while the other went away. But then Eteocles refused to relinquish power or allow Polynices back into the city.

Polynices made his way to Argos, where Adrastus was king. He arrived at the same time as Tydeus, a fierce Aetolian who was in exile after a domestic killing. The two got into a dispute, whereupon Adrastus recognized them as the boar and the lion that a seer had advised him to make his sons-in-law. He accordingly gave them his two daughters. He agreed to help Polynices recover his rightful throne at Thebes, and the military expedition was prepared.

I t is not quite certain, but it is likely, that there were already in the epic seven commanders to correspond to the fabled seven gates of Thebes. The probable list is: Adrastus, Polynices, Tydeus, Capaneus, Parthenopaeus,

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Mecisteus, and Amphiaraus. This last hero, who was a wise seer as well as a doughty warrior (fr. 6), knew from the omens that the enterprise was destined to fail, and he tried to avoid enlistment. But he was married to Adrastus' sister Eriphyle; Adrastus had given her to him in settlement of a quarrel, and it had been agreed that in the event of any disagreement between the two of them her arbitration would be final (fr. 7*). On this occasion, bribed by Polynices with a priceless heirloom, the necklace given by Cadmus to Harmonia, she decreed that Amphiaraus must go to the war. As he prepared to set out, knowing that he would not return alive, he gave advice to his sons, Alcmaon and Amphilochus, on how they should conduct themselves when he was no longer there (fr. 8*). He may have charged Alcmaon with the duty of taking revenge on Eriphyle.

For most details of the campaign we have to turn to other authors, who may or may not give an accurate reflection of the narrative of the Thebaid.4 On reaching Nemea the expedition paused to honor with funeral games the boy Opheltes, also called Archemoros, who had been fatally bitten by a snake: this was the mythical origin of the Nemean Games.5 I f the episode occurred in the Thebaid, the poem must date from after 573, when the Nemean Games in fact began.

4 See especially Iliad 4.372-398, 5.801-808, 10.285-290; Pindar, Ol. 6.13-17, Nem. 9.13-27; Bacchylides 9.10-20; Dio-dorus 4.65.5-9; Apollodorus 3.6.3-8; Pausanias 9.5.12, 8.7-9.3; Hyginus, Fabulae 68; Gantz, Early Greek Myth, 510-519.

5 Bacchylides 9.10-24; Euripides, Hypsipyle; Hypotheses to Pindar's Nemeans; Apollodorus 3.6.4; Hyginus, Fabulae 74,273.6. For a parallel myth about a heroic origin for the Isthmian Games see below on Eumelus' Corinthiaca.

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At the river Asopus, a few miles from Thebes, the army halted, and Tydeus was sent ahead to deliver an ultimatum. In the version known to the poet of the Iliad he was entertained at a banquet in Eteocles' house, after which he challenged the Cadmeans to athletic trials and easily beat them all. When he departed they set fifty men to ambush him, but he overcame them all, leaving only one alive to tell the tale.

The Argive attack then went forward. After fierce fighting outside the walls the Thebans were driven back into the city. Capaneus mounted the wall on a ladder, and it seemed that nothing could stop him, until Zeus struck him down with a thunderbolt. This gave the defenders new courage, and the issue was again in the balance. I t was agreed that Eteocles and Polynices should fight a duel to settle which was to be king, but it resulted in their both being killed. The battle resumed. One by one the Argive champions were killed, Tydeus showing his savage nature to the last (fr. 9*). The good Amphiaraus was saved from this ignominy: as he fled in his chariot, the earth opened up and swallowed him. He remains alive underground to issue prophecies at his oracular site. Only Adrastus escaped with his life, thanks to the marvellous horse Arion (fr. 11).

The elegiac poet Callinus in the mid seventh century associated this subject matter with "Homer," and no alternative author is ever named. Herodotus surely has the Thebaid in mind when he speaks of "Homeric" poetry that Cleisthenes of Sicyon banned because of its celebration of Argos and Argives (5.67.1). He goes on to tell that Cleisthenes reduced the honor in which Adrastus was held at Sicyon and introduced the cult of Melanippus, who had killed Mecisteus and Tydeus in the Theban war.

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Pseudo-Herodotus in his Life of Homer does not mention the Thebaid as such among Homers compositions, but he represents the poet as reciting in the cobbler's at Neonteichos, at an early stage in his career, "Amphiaraus' Expedition to Thebes, and the Hymns that he had composed to the gods." The circumstances imply that the Expedition was a relatively short poem, not a full-length epic, not therefore the whole Thebaid, but a partial narrative covering perhaps Eriphyle's machinations and the seer's instruction of his sons. We should not suppose that this existed as a poem distinct from the Thebaid, as Bethe thought. The author imagines the young Homer trying out a specimen of the Thebaid that he was working on. 6

Epigoni The opening line of the Epigoni (fr. 1) proclaims it to be a continuation of the Thebaid. I t may have been attached to it in some ancient texts, though at least from the time of Herodotus (4.32) it had the status of a separate poem.

The Epigoni and their expedition are known to the Iliad poet (4.405^08), although in other passages, such as 5.115-117 and 14.111-127, he seems to forget that Dio-medes has proved himself in a previous war.7 I f we trust the mythographers' accounts,8 the sons of the Seven were led not by Adrastus' son Aegialeus, as we might have expected, but (on the advice of Apollo's oracle) by Alcmaon. After laying waste the villages in the surrounding country

6 Carl Robert, Oidipus, i.219. 7 Robert, Oidipus, i.186, 195. 8 See especially Pindar, Pyth. 8.39-56; Diodorus 5.66;

Apollodorus 3.7.2-4; Pausanias 9.5.13, 8.6, 9.4-5; Hyginus, Fabulae 71; Gantz, Early Greek Myth, 522-525.

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they met the Cadmean army at Glisas, five miles northeast of Thebes. Aegialeus was killed by Laodamas, the son of Eteocles,9 but the Thebans were routed and fled back to the city. Their seer Teiresias advised them to abandon i t , and a stream of refugees departed. He went with them as far as Tilphusa, where he died. Some of them went and founded Hestiaea in Thessaly, others settled among the Encheleis, an Illyrian tribe. The victorious Epigoni sacked Thebes and captured Teiresias' daughter Manto, whom they sent to Delphi as a thanks offering to Apollo (fr. 4). She ended up at Claros in Asia Minor, and established Apollo's sanctuary there. The famous seer Mopsus was said to be her son.

Herodotus (4.32) expresses doubt about Homer's authorship of the Epigoni, and a scholiast on Aristophanes (fr. 1) ascribes i t to Antimachus, presumably meaning Antimachus of Teos, a poet who was supposed to have seen a solar eclipse in 753 B C . 1 0 On the strength of this a verse quoted from Antimachus of Teos may be assigned to the Epigoni (fr. 2), and we may also infer that the epic contained a portent in which the sun turned dark. The interest in Claros would be appropriate for a poet from nearby Teos. But he probably wrote long after the eighth century.

Alcmeonis We may guess that the major event narrated in this poem was Alcmaon's murder of his mother Eriphyle for having sent Amphiaraus to his doom. This made a natural sequel

9 He was the only one of the Epigoni to lose his life, as his father had been the only one to escape with his in the earlier conflict.

10 Plutarch, Life of Romulus, 12.2.

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to the first expedition against Thebes, but i t does not combine easily with the second expedition, which Alcmaon led . 1 1 The story may therefore predate the development of the Epigoni legend.

I t was popular with the tragedians, and their treatments have influenced the later mythographers, so that it is hard to know how much goes back to the epic. The motif of Alcmaon's being driven mad by his mothers Erinyes, for example, may have been worked up by the tragedians on the analogy of the Orestes story. But they wi l l not have invented the tradition of his travels through Arcadia and Aetolia to Acarnania. The reference to Tydeus' exile from Aetolia (fr. 4) suggests that the Alcmeonis may have told how Alcmaon went there with Tydeus' son Diomedes and helped him to rout the enemies of his family. 1 2 I t is likely also to have related how Alcmaon found absolution from his bloodguilt, in accordance with an oracle of Apollo, by finding a place to five that had not existed under the sun when he killed his mother. He found it in land newly created by silting at the mouth of the Achelous.1 3 The poet's interest in those western regions is confirmed by fr. 5.

The work is never ascribed to a named author. The importance i t gives to the Delphic oracle, its concern with Acarnania, which was an area of Corinthian settlement in the time of Cypselus and Periander, and its mention of Zagreus (fr. 3, otherwise first heard of in Aeschylus) suggest a sixth-century or even early fifth-century date.

1 1 See Gantz, Early Greek Myth, 525. 1 2 Ephorus FGrHist 70 F 123; Apollodorus 1.8.6. iSThucydides 2.102.5-6; Apollodorus 3.7.5; Pausanias

8.24.8-9.

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The Trojan Cycle

The Trojan cycle comprised eight epics including the Iliad and Odyssey. For the six lost ones we are fortunate to possess plot summaries excerpted from the Chrestomathy of Proclus; that for the Cypria is found in several manuscripts of the Iliad, while the rest are preserved in a single manuscript (Venetus A). For each epic Proclus states its place in the series, the number of books it contained, and an author's name.

I t is disputed whether the Proclus who wrote the Chrestomathy was the famous fifth-century Neoplatonist (as was believed at any rate by the sixth century) or a grammarian of some centuries earlier.1 4 I t makes little practical difference, as agreements with other mythographic sources, especially Apollodorus, show that Proclus was reproducing material of Hellenistic date.

His testimony is in some respects defective. I t appears from other evidence that Ajax's suicide has been eliminated from the end of the Aethiopis, and the whole sack of Troy from the end of the Little Iliad, because these events were included in the next poems in the series. Evidently he (or rather his Hellenistic source) was concerned to produce a continuous, nonrepetitive narrative based on the Cyclic poems rather than a complete account of their individual contents. There are other significant omissions too,

1 4 He is the Neoplatonist in the Suda's life of Proclus (from Hesychius ofMiletus). For the other view see Michael Hillgruber, "Zur Zeitbestimmung der Chrestomathie des Proklos," Rh. Mus. 133 (1990), 397-404.

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as the fragments show. I t is attested, for instance, that the Returns contained a descent to Hades, but there is no hint of it in Proclus. I t is probably legitimate to fi l l out his spare summary with some details from the parallel narrative of Apollodorus, and so I have done, giving the additions between angle brackets. Caution is needed, as Apollodorus has sometimes incorporated material from other sources such as tragedy.

Cypria The title means "the Cyprian epic" and implies that it came from Cyprus. I t was usually ascribed to a Cypriot poet, Stasinus or Hegesias (or Hegesinus); there was a story, apparently already known to Pindar, that Homer composed it but gave i t to Stasinus as his daughter's dowry. 1 5 Nothing is known of this Stasinus, or indeed of the other poets named in connection with the Cycle such as Arctinus of Miletus and Lesches of Pyrrha.

The poet set himself the task of telling the origin of the Trojan War and all that happened from then to the point where the Iliad begins. The resulting work lacked organic unity, consisting merely in a long succession of episodes. Many of them were traditional, and are alluded to in the Iliad. But the Cypria must have been composed after the Iliad had become well established as a classic. The language of the fragments (especially fr. 1) shows signs of lateness. The poem can hardly be earlier than the second half of the sixth century.

1 5 See the Testimonia. Herodotus (at fr. 14) argues against Homers authorship without indicating that there was any other named claimant.

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Aethiopis The Iliad poet started with a scheme in which, after killing Hector, Achilles was to chase the rest of the Trojans into the city by the Scaean Gate and there meet his fate in accordance with Thetis' warning (18.96). But he changed i t , deferring Achilles' death to an indeterminate moment after the end of the poem, and giving to Patroclus the funeral games that would have been Achilles'. A subsequent poet who wished to narrate the death of Achilles had to create another situation in which he killed a champion and pursued the mass of the enemy to the city. On the Iliad's terms the Trojans had no suitable champion left after Hector. But younger poets spun out the story by having a succession of new heroes arrive unexpectedly from abroad to help the Trojans. There was the Thracian Rhesus in the interpolated tenth rhapsody of the Iliad; in the Aethiopis there were successively the Amazon Penthesilea and the Ethiop Memnon; in the Little Iliad there was Eurypylus the son of Telephus. I t was Memnon who took the place of Hector as the hero whose death led swiftly to that of Achilles.

Achilles' death was the climax of the Aethiopis, as Hector's is of the Iliad. I t was followed by funeral games in his honor. The awarding of his armor to the bravest warrior went with the games. Hence it was natural for Arctinus (if that was the poet's name) to tell of Odysseus' victory over Ajax in that contest and, at least briefly in conclusion, of Ajax's suicide.

He used an existing account of Achilles' death, the Nereids' laments for him, and the funeral games, an account very like the one known to the Iliad poet. But the hero's

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translation to the White Island is post-Iliadic, as are the Amazon and Ethiop interventions. The Odyssey poet knows of Memnon (4.188,11.522), the battle for Achilles' body, the Nereids' and Muses' laments, and the funeral games (24.36-94), but he shows no awareness of the Penthesilea episode, which was perhaps the last addition to the structure. She first appears in artistic representations around 600 B C .

The Amazonia listed before the Little Iliad and Returns in the Hesychian Life of Homer was presumably the same as the Aethiopis, not a separate work.

The Little Iliad This poem, ascribed to Lesches from Pyrrha or Mytilene in Lesbos, is cited by Aristotle together with the Cypria to i l lustrate the episodic nature of some of the Cyclic poems. But it had a more coherent structure than may appear from Proclus' summary. I t began with the Achaeans facing a crisis: with Achilles and Ajax both dead, how were they to make further progress against Troy? Odysseus' capture of the Trojan seer Helenus unlocked the information they needed. They learned of three essential steps that they had to take. They had to bring Heracles' bow to Troy; that meant fetching Philoctetes from Lemnos, and it led to the death of Paris, the man whose desire for Helen had caused and sustained the war. They had to bring Neoptolemus from Scyros to take Achilles' place; he was able to defeat the Trojans' new champion Eurypylus and end their capability of fighting outside their walls. And they had to steal the Palladion, the divine image that protected the city.

When all that was accomplished, it remained to breach

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the Trojan defences. The building of the Wooden Horse provided the means to achieve this. The epic concluded with an account of the sack.

The Odyssey poet shows an extensive acquaintance with the subject matter of the Little Iliad,16 and must have known, i f not that very poem, something quite similar. The Iliad poet knew the Philoctetes story (2.716-725), and of course some version of the sack of Troy; the passages referring to Achilles' son Neoptolemus, however, are suspect (19.326-337,24.467). TheLittk Iliad may have been composed about the third quarter of the seventh century.

The Sack of Ilion This poem, ascribed to the same poet as the Aethiopis, gave an alternative account of the sack that diverged in some details from that in the Little Iliad. I n Proclus' summary of the Cycle the corresponding portion of the Little Iliad is suppressed in favor of the Sack.

As he represents it, Arctinus' poem began with the Trojans wondering what to do with the Wooden Horse, the Achaeans having apparently departed. This has been thought an implausible point at which to take up the story; but it corresponds remarkably well to the song of Demodocus described in Odyssey 8.500-520, and we may again suspect that the Odyssey poet knew an epic similar to the Cyclic poem as current in the classical period.

1 6 Ajax's defeat over the armor (11.543 ff.); Deiphobus as Helen's last husband (compare 4.276, 8.517); Neoptolemus and Eurypylus (11.506 ff., 519 f.) ; Odysseus' entry into Troy disguised as a beggar (4.242 ff.); Epeios' building of the horse (8.492 ff.).

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The Returns The Odyssey poet was also familiar with "the return of the Achaeans" as a subject of epic song (1.326,10.15), and he composed his own epic against that background. His references to the other heroes' returns are in fair agreement with the content of the Cyclic Returns. The Cyclic poem, on the other hand, seems to have made only one brief allusion to Odysseus' return (Neoptolemus' path crossed with his at Maronea)—no doubt because a separate Odyssey was already current.

Many of the heroes had uneventful homecomings. The major return stories were (a) the drowning of the Locrian Ajax as punishment for his sacrilege at Troy, and (b) the murder of Agamemnon when he arrived home, followed after some years by Orestes' revenge. There was no place in this story for Menelaus, whose return had therefore to be detached from his brother's and extended until just after Orestes' deed. The return of the two Atreidai formed the framework of the whole epic: it began with the dispute that separated them, and ended with Menelaus' belated return. Athenaeus in fact cites the poem as The Return of the Atreidai.

Of the other stories incorporated in it , the death of Calchas at Colophon is connected with the foundation of the oracle at Claros,1 7 while Neoptolemus' journey to the Molossian country implies the legends of his founding a kingdom there and the claims of local rulers to descend

1 7 Compare Epigoni fr. 4. The poet's interest in this region lends some color to Eustathius' belief that he was a Colophonian, though other sources attribute the work to Agias of Troezen.

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from him. What is completely obscure is the place occupied in the epic by the account of "Hades and the terrors in i t , " attested by Pausanias (at fr. 1) and the probable context of a whole series of fragments (2-8). The least unlikely suggestion is perhaps that the souls of Agamemnon and those killed with him were described arriving in the underworld, like the souls of the Suitors in Odyssey 24.1-204.

Telegony The final poem of the Cycle, intended as a sequel to the Odyssey, was an ill-assorted bundle of legends about the end of Odysseus' l i f e , 1 8 in which the number of his sons was raised from one to four or possibly five, born of three different mothers.

Teiresias in the Odyssey (11.121-137) had told Odysseus that after returning to Ithaca he should journey inland until he found a people ignorant of the sea, and there dedicate an oar and make sacrifice to Poseidon. Then he should go back home and govern his subjects in peace. Eventually in old age he would succumb to a mild death coming from the sea. Eugammon, the poet of the Telegony, developed these prophecies. Odysseus not only travelled into Thes-protia but married a local queen there and stayed until her death, leaving their son to rule the kingdom. On his return to Ithaca he found that Penelope had borne him another son. Meanwhile his earlier year-long sojourn with Circe had also borne fruit in a son, Telegonus, "Faraway-born." Telegonus' role was to introduce into epic the folktale of the son who unknowingly kills his father in combat, a motif

is On these see especially Albert Hartmann, Untersuchungen iiber die Sagen vom Tod des Odysseus (Munich, 1917).

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familiar from the stories of Hildebrand and Hadubrand, Sohrab and Rustum, and others. 1 9 His use of a sting ray spear made for a somewhat forced fulfilment of the prophecy about Odysseus' death from the sea. The ending in which everyone married each other and lived happily ever after was pure novelette.

The author of this confection is identified as a Cy-renaean active in the 560s. That seems corroborated by the information (fr. 4) that Odysseus' second son by Penelope was called Arcesilaus. I n its Doric form, Arcesilas, this was a dynastic name of the Battiad kings of Cyrene; Arcesilas I I was reigning in the 560s. By giving Odysseus a son of this name Eugammon was lending credence to a claim that the Battiads were descended from Odysseus. The Thesprotian part of his story, which may have existed earlier, was likewise constructed to bolster the pretensions of a local nobil i ty. 2 0

Poems on Exploits of Heracles

Myths of Heracles may go back to Mycenaean times. 2 1 At any rate poems about his deeds were current before 700 BC. Hesiod was familiar with them, as appears from a se-

1 9 See M. A. Potter, Sohrab and Rustem. The Epic Theme of a Combat between Father and Son (London, 1902).

2 0 Clement's allegation that Eugammon stole it from Musaeus (see the Testimonia) may imply that it had some independent currency under another name. Pausanias (at fr. 3) cites a Thesprotis, hut this may be identical with the Telegony.

21 See M. P. Nilsson, The Mycenaean Origin of Greek Mythology (Berkeley, 1932), 187-220.

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ries of allusions in the Theogony (287-294, 313-318, 327-332, 526-532; compare also 215 f., 334 f., 518), and there are many references to him also in the Iliad and Odyssey. Heracles' fight with the Hydra is already represented on a Boeotian fibula of the late eighth or early seventh century. Considerably earlier is a terracotta centaur with a knee wound, found at Lefkandi in Euboea and dating from the late tenth century: i t is perhaps to be connected with the story of Heracles shooting Chiron in the knee. 2 2

The early poems may in most cases have been concerned with single exploits, as in the Capture of Oichalia attributed to Homer or Creophylus and the pseudo-Hesiodic Shield of Heracles and Wedding of Ceyx. But the myth of Heracles' subjugation to Eurystheus, who laid a series of tasks on him, presupposes narratives in which his successful accomplishment of all these tasks was described, and this myth is already alluded to in the Iliad and Odyssey.23 There must therefore have been a poem or poems covering "the Labors of Heracles," even i f it is uncertain how many or which Labors were included. 2 4

The only archaic epic on this subject that survived to be read by Alexandrian scholars was the Heraclea of Pisander of Camirus. (Clement mentions one Pisinous of Lindos from whom, he alleges, Pisander's poem was plagiarized,

2 2 Apollodorus 2.5.4; M. R. Popham and L. H . Sackett, Lefkandi i (London, 1980), 168-170, 344 f., pi. 169, and frontispiece.

2 3 Iliad 8.362-365,15.639 f., 19.95-133; Odyssey 11.617-626. 2 4 The number varies in later accounts. The tally of twelve is

not documented earlier than the metopes on the temple of Zeus at Olympia (around 460 B C ) and perhaps Pindar fr. 169a,43.

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but this may have been no more than a variant attribution found in some copies.) I n the second quarter of the fifth century Panyassis of Halicarnassus, a cousin or uncle of Herodotus, wrote a much longer Heraclea; this may be counted as the last product of the old epic tradition, as Choerilus' Persica, from the late fifth century, represents a self-conscious search for new paths, and Antimachus' Thebaid even more so. Both Pisander and Panyassis are included in a canon of the five major epic poets, first attested in its complete form by Proclus but perhaps Alexandrian in origin. 2 5

"Creophylus," The Capture of Oichalia Creophylus of Samos appears in Plato and various later authors as a friend of Homer's who gave him hospitality and was rewarded with the gift of this poem; the effect of the story was to vindicate as Homer's a work generally current under Creophylus' name. 2 6 However, Creophylus seems not to have been a real person but the fictitious eponym of a Samian rhapsodes' guild, the Creophyleans, one of whom, Hermodamas, was said to have taught Pythagoras.27

Oichalia was the legendary city of king Eurytus. 2 8 Its

2 5 See Quintilian 10.1.54. The other three in the canon are Homer, Hesiod, and Antimachus. The absence of Eumelus, Arctinus, and the other Cyclic poets is noteworthy.

2 6 Callimachus, Epigram 6 Pf., inverts the relationship, saying that it was really by Creophylus but became known as Homer's.

2 7 See Walter Burkert, Kleine Schriften I: Homerica (Got-•ingen, 2001), 141-143; Filippo Cassola, Inni omerici (Milan, 1975), xxxvii.

2 8 Iliad 2.596, 730; Odyssey 8.224; [Hesiod] fr. 26.28-33.

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location was disputed in antiquity, some placing it in Thes-saly (as in the Iliad), some in Euboea (as in Sophocles' Trachiniae), and others in the Péloponnèse (Arcadia or Messene). Pausanias (in fragment 2) implies that Cre-ophylus' poem favored the Euboean claim, but Strabo (also in fragment 2) indicates that i t was ambivalent.

Heracles visited Oichalia and was entertained by Eurytus, but presently a quarrel arose between them and Heracles was driven away, perhaps after winning an archery contest in which Eurytus' daughter Iole was the prize. Heracles then stole Eurytus' horses, killed his son Iphitus when he came looking for them, and finally attacked Oichalia, sacked it , and took Iole by force. The story possibly continued, as in Sophocles' play, with Heracles' wife Deianeira sending him the poisoned robe that killed h i m . 2 9

Pisander Theocritus, in an epigram composed for a bronze statue of Pisander, celebrates him as the first poet to tell the story of Heracles and all his Labors. The fragments of the poem show that i t dealt not only with the Labors performed at Eurystheus' behest but also with other exploits such as Heracles' encounter with Antaios and his assault on Troy. I f the Suda's statement that it was in two books is correct, it was quite a compact work.

The same source tells us that some dated Pisander earlier than Hesiod (presumably on account of Hesiod's references to the Heracles myths), while others put him in the

29 For the various versions of the legend see Gantz, Early Greek Myth, 434-437.

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mid seventh century. The only real clue is that he represented Heracles as wearing a lion skin and armed with a bow and a club. In art he is portrayed in this garb only from about 600; before that he is shown like a normal hoplite, with shield, spear, and sword.

Panyassis Panyassis' Heraclea was much more extensive, a work of some 9,000 lines, divided into fourteen books: the longest of pre-Alexandrian epics after the Iliad, Odyssey, and Antimachus' Thebaid. The length is accounted for by an ample narrative style which had room for some leisurely dialog scenes (see fragments 3, 13, 18-22).

The Nemean Lion was mentioned in book 1 (fr. 6), a drinking session which may have been that with the centaur Pholos in book 3 (fr. 9), and the crossing of Oceanus, presumably to Erythea to get the cattle of Geryon, in book 5 (fr. 13). The Geryon exploit usually comes towards the end of the Labors for Eurystheus; i f this was the case in Panyassis, the implication wi l l be that a large portion of his poem was taken up with adventures recounted after the conclusion of the Eurystheus cycle. But we have little reliable evidence as to the sequence of episodes. I n default of it , it is convenient to take Apollodorus' narrative as a guide in ordering the fragments, though his principal source appears to have been Pherecydes, who wrote a few years after Panyassis and introduced complications of his own. 3 0

Besides the Heraclea, Panyassis is said to have com-

3 0 The three modern editors of Panyassis, Matthews, Bernabe\ and Davies, all differ in their numbering of the fragments, and I have not felt it necessary to follow any one of them.

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posed an elegiac poem in 7,000 lines on the legendary colonization of Ionia. As with similar long antiquarian elegies attributed to Semonides (Samian Antiquities) and Xenophanes (Foundation of Colophon, Colonization of Flea), there is no clear trace of the poem's currency or in fluence in antiquity, and some doubt remains as to whether it ever really existed.

Theseis

Aristode in his Poetics criticizes "all those poets who have composed a Heracleis, a Theseis, and poems of that kind" for their mistaken assumption that the career of a single hero gives unity to a mythical narrative. We have just two citations from an epic referred to as "the Theseid," no author being identified.

Theseus is an Attic hero with only a marginal place in the older epic tradition. He and his family are unknown to the Iliad except in interpolated lines (1.265, 3.144). The Odyssey mentions the Ariadne story (11.321-325; compare Sappho fr. 206), and the Cyclic poems incorporated the tale that Theseus' sons Acamas and Demophon went to fight at Troy for the sole purpose of rescuing their grandmother Aethra, who had been captured by the Dioscuri and enslaved to Helen. 3 1 But Theseus' emergence as a sort of Attic Heracles, who overcame a series of monsters and brigands and had various other heroic achievements to his credit, appears on artistic evidence to have occurred only

31 Cypria fr. 12*; Little Iliad fr. 17; Sack ofllion Argum. 4 and fr. 6; compare Alcman PMGF 21, and the interpolation at Iliad 3.144.

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around 525 B C . 3 2 I t probably reflects the circulation of an epic Theseis at this time, perhaps the work from which our citations come. But a Theseis is also ascribed to one Nicostratus, who lived in the fourth century. 3 3

G E N E A L O G I C A L A N D A N T I Q U A R I A N E P I C S

Pausanias tells us that, wishing to settle a point of mythical genealogy, he read "the so-called Ehoiai and the Naupak-tia, and besides them all the genealogies of Cinaethon and Asius." 3 4 The Ehoiai, that is, the pseudo-Hesiodic Catalog of Women, was the most widely current of the early poems that dealt with this kind of subject matter, and an obvious place to turn for information of the sort that Pausanias wanted. There was also a Great Ehoiai under Hesiod's name. But diere were various other poems of this category dating from the fifth century B C or earlier, some of them ascribed to particular authors, others anonymous. They were not widely read, but they existed. The quantity is surprising. The explanation is to be sought, not in the archaic Greeks' insatiable urge to write verse, but rather in the desire of clans and cities to construct a prehistory for themselves, or to modify current assumptions about their prehistory. Sometimes the citizenship of the poet is reflected in the emphasis of the poem. Eumelus is creating a prehis-

3 2 See Emily Keams and K. W. Arafat in OCD3 s.v. Theseus. 3 3 Diogenes Laertius 2.59. The choliambic Theseis of Diphilus

(schol. Pind. Ol. 10.83b, uncertain date) was presumably a burlesque.

3 4 Paus. 4.2.1 = Cinaethon fr. 5.

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tory for Corinth and Sicyon; Asius is creating one for Samos. This does not represent the entirety of their ambitions, to be sure. There are many fragments that we cannot relate to the poets' national interests, or see how they fitted into the overall structure.

Eumelus

Eumelus of Corinth, according to Pausanias, was the son of Amphilytus and belonged to the Bacchiad family, who ruled Corinth up to the time of Cypselus (about 657 B C ) ; he is dated in the generation before the first Messenian War, so sometime in the mid eighth century. 3 5 He was credited with the authorship of a processional song (PMG 696) that the Messenians performed for Apollo on Delos, and in Pausanias' opinion this was his only genuine work. Five other titles are associated with him: Titanomachy, Corinihiaca, Europia, Return of the Greeks, and Bou-gonia. The last two are mentioned in only one source each. Bougonia suggests a poem about cattle-breeding, but i t is difficult to imagine such a work. The Return of the Greeks is presumably identical with the Cyclic Returns, which is otherwise ascribed to Agias of Troezen: its attribution to Eumelus may be an isolated error.

The three remaining titles are more regularly associ-

3 5 Paus. 2.1.1; 4.4.1. Eusebius in his Chronicle dated Eumelus similarly to 760/759 or 744/743, while Clement (Strom. 1.131.8) says he overlapped with Archias, another Bacchiad, who founded Syracuse around 734. See A. A. Mosshammer, The Chronicle of Eusebius and the Greek Chronographic Tradition (Lewisburg, 1979), 198-203.

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ated with Eumelus, even i f many authors prefer to cite them without an author's name. 3 6 As they are bound together by certain links of subject matter, they may be considered as forming a sort of Corinthian epic cycle transmitted under the name "Eumelus," and kept together under that name, whether or not they are in fact by one poet. I t may be that Eumelus' name was remembered in connection with the processional and then attached to the epics because no other name of a Corinthian poet was available.

Titanomachy This poem was divided into at least two books (fr. 14). The war in which the younger gods defeated the Titans must have bulked large in i t , but the fragments show that it had a wider scope. I t began with some account of the earlier generations of gods (fr. 1). Both this divine genealogy and the account of the war diverged from Hesiod's Theogony.

The poem shows points of contact with the Corinthiaca in the interest shown in the Sungod(frs. 10-11) and in the many-handed sea deity Aigaion or Briareos (fr. 3); see frs. 16-17. The prominence of the sons of Iapetos (frs. 5*, 7*) may also be significant in view of Ephyra's connection with Epimetheus in the Corinthiaca (fr. 15). I t appears that the Titanomachy supplied the divine prehistory to the Corinthian dynastic history.

Corinthiaca This composition was valued more for its content than for its poetry, and the poetic text was largely displaced from

3 6 For the Titanomachy Athenaeus mentions Arctinus as a claimant besides Eumelus. On these works see my study listed in the Bibliography.

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circulation by a prose version, still under Eumelus' name, that told the same story in what was perhaps felt to be a more accredited format. Hence Clement can associate Eumelus with Acusilaus as a prose writer who used material of the Hesiodic type, and Pausanias can refer to the Corinthian History, using a form of title that definitely suggests a prose work. I t may have been from a preface prefixed to the prose version that he obtained his biographical details about Eumelus. 3 7 Fragments 17 and 21, however, and 16 i f rightly assigned to Eumelus, show that some people still had access to the poetic version.

The work was concerned with the origins of Corinth and the history of its kingship, but it also took account of its western neighbor Sicyon. These cities rose to prominence only after about 900 B C , and they had no standing in traditional epic myth; they are hardly mentioned in Homer. Mythical histories had to be constructed for them in the archaic period. For Corinth the first step was to identify it with the Homeric Ephyra, the city of Sisyphus, which lay " in a corner of the Argolid" (Iliad 6.152) but whose location was not firmly established. The name was explained as being that of an Oceanid nymph who was the first settler in the area of Corinth (fr. 15). She was married to Epimetheus, who in Hesiod is the husband of the first woman, Pandora.

The royal line was traced from Helios, the Sun god, who had been awarded the site in a dispute with Poseidon (fr. 16*), down to Sisyphus and Glaucus. We do not know how much further the tale went. I t can hardly have omit-

37 Clem. Strom. 6.26.7; Paus. 2.1.1 (fr. 15).

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ted Glaucus' son Bellerophon, who went to Lycia and started a new royal line there (Iliad 6.168-211). I t may be that Eumelus was the source for Pindar's myth of the golden bridle which Bellerophon obtained from Athena and which enabled him to capture Pegasus.38

Europia The title Europia implies that the story of Europa had a prominent place in the work, which Pausanias indeed (at fr. 30) calls "the Europa poem." I t apparently recorded her abduction by Zeus in the form of a bull (fr. 26), presumably also the birth of her sons Minos, Rhadamanthys, and Sar-pedon, and perhaps some of their descendants.

The story of Europa led also towards Boeotia. The Europia of Stesichorus included the story of Cadmus' foundation of Thebes (PMGF 195), no doubt after he had searched in vain for his vanished sister Europa and received advice from Delphi. I f the Europa story was developed similarly in the Eumelian poem, this suggests possible contexts for the Delphic reference of fr. 28 and for Amphion and his lyre (fr. 30). Europa herself had Boeotian connections, as did one of her sons.

Does the Europia show any signs of connection with the Corinthiaca or with Corinth or Sicyon? We may note firstly that the story of Dionysus and Lycurgus (fr. 27) is dragged oddly into the Iliad in the episode where Glaucus relates to Diomedes the history of Sisyphus of Ephyra and his descendants (6.130-140, 152-211). Nowhere else in the Iliad or Odyssey does Dionysus have such prominence. But he was the patron deity of the Bacchiadai, as

3 8 Pindar, Ol. 13.63-92, cf. Paus. 2.4.1.

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their name implies; the Bacchis from whom they claimed descent was a son of the god. 3 9

Secondly, Amphion and Zethus (fr. 30) have a direct connection with Sicyon, as there was a tale that their mother Antiope, a daughter of Asopus, had been abducted from Hyria in Boeotia by the Sicyonian Epopeus, and that he was actually their father.4 0 Epopeus played a part in the narrative of the Corinthiaca, and an Antiope figured there as his grandmother, the consort of Helios.

I t seems likely that fr. 29, as i t deals with another daughter of Asopus abducted from Hyria, should also be assigned to the Europia. This Asopid is Sinope, the epo-nym of the Milesian colony on the Black Sea, founded (to judge by the archaeological evidence) in the mid seventh century. The interest in this area parallels the Argonautic element in the Corinthiaca.41

There is, then, some reason to treat the Titanomachy, Corinthiaca, and Europia as a group, apart from their common attribution to Eumelus. That they were really the work of an eighth-century Bacchiad is excluded on chronological grounds. The Titanomachy is not likely to antedate the later seventh century, as the motifs of the Suns chariot and his floating vessel are not attested earlier than that. The Corinthiaca must date from sometime after the foundation of the Isthmian Games (582) and probably af-

3 9 Sch. Ap. Rhod. 4.1212/1214a. 4 0 See Paus. 2.6.1^1, who quotes Asius (fr. 1); Apollodorus

3.5.5. 4 1 Alternatively, if fr. 29 is from the Corinthiaca, the two po

ems are linked by the interest in Asopids abducted from Hyria.

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ter the first Greek settlement in Colchis (mid sixth century). Orpheus and the race in armor (fr. 22*) are also late elements. As for the Europia, i f the Sinope fragment is rightly assigned to i t , that poem too reflected a fairly advanced stage in Greek penetration of the Black Sea, in this case after about 650.

Cinaethon, Asius, and Others

Among his texts of first recourse on questions of mythical genealogy Pausanias names the poems of Cinaethon and Asius, and the Naupaktia. None of these was widely read in the Roman period, and for Cinaethon and Asius Pausanias himself is the source of nearly all the fragments. Cinaethon is described as a Lacedaemonian, but we can say nothing else about him; Eusebius' dating to 764/3 B C is of no more value than any of the other datings assigned to epic poets by ancient chronographers. There is a puzzling randomness in the tides occasionally associated with Cinaethon: Oedipodea, Little Iliad, Tehgony. The actual fragments cannot be ascribed to any of these. They are from a genealogical work which contained (appropriately for a Spartan poet) information about descendants of Agamemnon and Menelaus, but also about Cretan figures and about the children of Medea and Jason.

Asius of Samos seems somewhat more a figure of flesh and blood. He has a father's name as well as a city, and he does not appear among the claimants for authorship of any of the Cyclic poems. His genealogies showed a healthy concern with the history of his native island (frs. 7, 13), though they also took in heroes from Boeotia (frs. 1-4),

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Phocis (fr. 5), Aetolla (fr. 6), the Péloponnèse (frs. 8-10), and Attica (fr. 11). Besides hexameter poetry, Asius is also quoted for an enigmatic elegiac fragment. 4 2

We have one fragment each from two obscure poets whom Pausanias had found quoted by an earlier author, Callippus of Corinth, and who were no longer current in his own time. These were Hegesinous, author of an Atthis (the fragment, however, concerns Boeotia), and Chersias of Orchomenos. Callippus was a writer of the early imperial period, perhaps an epideictic orator rather than a historian. I t is often maintained that the two poets and their fragments, which he quoted in what was perhaps an oration to the Orchomenians, were his own inventions. 4 3

There seems no strong ground for the suspicion; i f he had wanted to forge testimonies of old poets, he would surely have come up with verses of a less humdrum character. Chersias' existence at least is recognized by Plutarch, who makes him a contemporary of Periander and Chilon and an interlocutor in the Banquet of the Seven Sages (156e, 163f); he alludes to some incident which had caused him to fall out of favor with Periander. This may be a novelistic fiction, but some record of a poet Chersias seems to lie behind it.

4 2 Douglas E . Gerber, Greek Elegiac Poetry (Loeb Classical Library), p. 426.

4 3 Carl Robert, "De Gratiis Atticis," in Commentationes philologae in honorera Th. Mommseni scripserunt amid (Berlin, 1877), 145-146; Felix Jacoby, commentary on FGrHist 331 (IIIB Supplement, 609).

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Anonymous Poems

The "Naupactus epic" (Naupaktia or Naupaktika), although regularly cited by its title alone, or with the phrase "the author of the Naupaktika," is not wholly anonymous, as Pausanias tells us that Charon of Lampsacus, an author of about 400 B C , ascribed i t to a Naupactian named Car-cinus, whereas most people credited it to a Milesian. He implies that the title was not accounted for by any particular concentration on Naupactian matters. That being so, the title would imply a poem that was current in the Naupactus area or believed to originate from there. 4 4

Pausanias describes it as being "on women," which suggests a structure similar to that of the Hesiodic Ehoiai, with a succession of genealogies taking their starting point from various heroines. But it contained at least one ample narrative of the heroic type: the story of the Argonauts. More than half of the fragments come from the scholia to Apollonius Rhodius, which contrast details of Apollonius' narrative with that of the older poem. I t is a sign of Naupactian interest in the northwest that Jason was represented as migrating to Corcyra after the death of Pelias (fr. 9). This was no doubt the Corcyraean legend of the time, as was the affiliation to Jason of the Epirotic figure Mermerus. 4 5

The Phoronis told of Phoroneus, the first man in Argive myth, and his descendants. The Argive focus is clear in fr. 4, less so in other fragments, such as those on the Phrygian

4 4 The clearest parallel is the title Cypria; perhaps also Phocais and Iliad, Little Iliad.

4 5 See the note to the translation.

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Kouretes and Idaean Dactyls (2—3). I t is not apparent whether the poem told of Io s journey to Egypt and her progéniture of an Egyptian family that eventually returned to Argos. That story was related in another anonymous poem, the Danais or Danaides. This is classified here as a genealogical rather than a heroic (single-episode) poem because of the nature of the myth, which leads on inelucta-bly to the Danaids' slaughter of their bridegrooms, the sons of Aegyptus, and the dynasty that descended from the one who was spared, Lynceus. The remarkable length of the poem, reported as 6,500 verses, also suggests a broad scope. Like the Phoronis, it found occasion to speak of the Kouretes (fr. 3), and of myth about the gods (fr. 2) whose relevance to the Danaid saga is obscure.

Also assigned to this section are the fragments of the Minyas. The Minyans were the legendary inhabitants of Orchomenos, and the poem may perhaps have begun with genealogies covering that part of Boeotia; there were no particular myths about the Minyans as such, 4 6 or about their eponym Minyas. The fragments, however, come exclusively from an account of Theseus' and Pirithous' descent to the underworld, and of various people whom they met there or observed undergoing punishment. How this was connected with Minyan matters is entirely obscure.

I t may be that the Minyas was the same as the poem on the descent of Theseus and Pirithous to Hades which Pausanias (9.31.5) mentions in his list of poems that some people (wrongly, in his view) attributed to Hesiod. I f they were two different poems, then the papyrus fragment here

4 6 The identification of the Argonauts as Minyans was a secondary development.

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given as fr. 7 of the Minyas might be from either. 4 7 But the Minyas has the stronger claim, as the poem for which there is actual evidence of currency; and what Meleager says about his own death in fr. 7.1-2 corresponds exactly to the information in fr. 5.

U N P L A C E D F R A G M E N T S

A number of authors quote from "Homer" lines or phrases that do not occur in the poems known to us. I n some cases this must be put down to confusion or corruption, or the distortion of genuine Homeric lines through misrecollec-tion. Of the residue that cannot be so accounted for, a part probably came from poems of the Epic Cycle, which we know tended to be attributed wholesale to Homer, especially in the fifth century. Sometimes we can guess at a likely context in one or other of these poems.

Other epic fragments are quoted with no attribution. Here the editor must try to decide whether they have a claim to be old rather than Hellenistic or later. I have restricted myself to a few quoted by pre-Hellenistic authors or by Homeric commentators who are probably citing what they think are early poems.

There are many hexameter fragments on papyrus that do not show clear signs of late composition and might in theory be from archaic epic. But in view of the limited currency that the early epics had in later times, the chances are not high, and their subject matter is generally doubtful. There would have been little advantage i n including them in the present volume.

4 7 It is also Hesiod fr. 280 Merkelbach-West.

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Severyns, Albert. Le cycle épique dans l'école d'Aris-tarque. Liège and Paris, 1928.

Welcker, F. G. Der epische Cyclus, oder die homerischen Dichter. Bonn, i 2 1865, i i 1849.

Theban Cycle

Bethe, Erich. Thebanische Heldenlieder. Leipzig, 1891. Robert, Carl. Oidipus. Geschichte eines poetischen Stoffs

im griechischen Altertum. Berlin, 1915.

Trojan Cycle

Bethe, Erich. Homer. Dichtung und Sage. Zweiter Band: Odyssee. Kyklos. Zeitbestimmung. Leipzig and Berlin, 1922.

Griffin, Jasper. "The Epic Cycle and the Uniqueness of Homer,"/HS 97 (1977): 39-53.

Kullmann, Wolfgang. Die Quellen der Ilias (Hermes Einzelschritten, 14). Wiesbaden, I960.

Monro, D . B. "Homer and the Cyclic Poets," in Homer's Odyssey, Books XIII-XXIV (Oxford, 1901): 340-384.

Eumelus

Marckscheffel, Guilelmus. Hesiodi, Eumeli, Cinaethonis, Asii et Carminis Naupactii Fragmenta. Leipzig, 1840.

West, M . L. "'Eumelos'.- a Corinthian Epic Cycle?" JHS 122 (2002).

Wi l l , Edouard. Korinthiaka. Recherches sur l'histoire et la civilisation de Corinthe des origines aux guerres médiques. Paris, 1955.

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Ο Ι Δ Ι Π Ο Δ Ε Ι Α

T E S T I M O N I U M

IG 14.1292 ü 11 = Tabula Iliaca Κ (Borgiae) p. 61 Sadurska

τ]ην Οί8ιπό8βιαν την ύπο Κιναίθωνος τον [Λακεδαιμονίου λίγομένην π€ποίήσθαι παραλίπόν]τ€ς, έπων ονσαν >Fx, νποθησομίν θηβαΐδα [

[ΑακεΒαίμονίον - παραλιπόν]τες e.g. suppl. Wüamowitz.

F R A G M E N T A

1 Paus. 9.5.10-11

παιδας Se έζ αυτής ον Βοκώ οί γενέσθαι, μάρτυρι Όμη-ρωι χρώμενος, ος έποίησεν έν Όδνσσείαι (11.271-274)· "μητέρα τ Οΐδιπόδαο ïèov, καλήν Έπικάστην, I η μέγα ίργον (ρ(ζίν άϊδρείηισί νόοιο I γημαμίνη ωι vUr δ δ' ον πατέρ' έζεναρίξας I γήμεν άφαρ δ' άνάπυστα θεοί θέσαν άνθρώποισιν" πώς ονν εποίησαν άνάπνστα άφαρ, ei 8η τέσσαρες έκ της Έπικάστης έγένοντο παίδες τωι Οίδί-ποδι; ΐζ Έ,νρυγανείας <δέ> της 'Ύπέρφαντος έγεγόνεσαν

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OEDIPODEA


Borgia plaque

. . . passing over t]he Oedipodea, which [they say was composed] by Cinaethon the [Lacedaemonian] in 6,600 verses, we wi l l put down the Thebaid [ . . .

F R A G M E N T S

1 Pausanias, Description of Greece

That he had children by his mother, I do not believe; witness Homer, who wrote in the Odyssey, "And I saw Oedipus' mother, fair Epicaste, who unwittingly did a terrible thing in marrying her own son, who had lolled his father; and the gods soon made it known among people." How did they soon make it known, i f Oedipus had four children by Epicaste? No, they had been born from Euryganea, the daughter of Hyperphas.

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δηλοΐ δε και 6 τά επη ποιήσας ά Οΐδπτόδια ονομάζονσι.

Cf. Pherec. fr. 95 Fowler; Apollod. Bibl. 3.5.8; schol. Eur. Phoen. 13, 1760.

2 * Asclepiades FGrHist 12 F 7a

"εστι δίνουν έπι γης και τετράπον, ού μία φωνή,

και τρίπον, άλλάσσει δε φνην μόνον, δσσ έπι γαΐαν

ερπετά κινείται και άν' αιθέρα και κατά πόντον. άλλ' οπόταν πλείστοισ-ιν έρειδόμενον ποσϊ

βαίνηι, 5 'ένθα μένος γυίοισιν άφανρότατον πέλει αϋτοΰ."

Ath. 456b; Anth. Pal. 14.64; Argum. Aesch. Sept., Soph. Ο. Τ., Eur. Phoen.; schol. Eur. Phoen. 50; schol. et Tzetz. in Lyc. 7.

Variae lectiones: 1 φωνη] μορφή 2 ψυήν] φνσιν 3 κινείται] γίνηται, γίνονται και άν'] ανά τ'

4 πλείστοισιζ;] τρισσοίσιν, π\εόνεσσιν έρειδόμενον] επειγόμενον 5 /ueVos] τάχος.

3 Schol. Eur. Pfroen. 1760

άναρπάζουσα δε μικρούς και μεγάλους κατήσθιεν, εν οϊς και Αΐμονα τον Κρέοντος παΐδα . . . οι την Οϊδιττοδίαν γράφοντες ^ουδείς ούτω φησί^ περι της %φιγγός·

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This is made clear also by the poet of the epic that they call Oedipodea.

2 * Asclepiades, Tragedians' Tales

"There is on earth a two-footed and four-footed creature with a single voice, and three-footed, changing its form alone of all creatures that move in earth, sky, or sea. When it walks on the most legs, then the strength of its limbs is weakest."1

3 Scholiast on Euripides, Phoenician Women

(The Sphinx) seized and devoured great and small, including Haemon the son of Creon . . . The authors of the Oedipodea say of the Sphinx:

1 This hexameter version of the Sphinx's riddle is quoted by various sources which go back to Asclepiades of Tragilus (late fourth century B C ) . There is a good chance that he took it from the Oedipodea. The solution of the riddle is "man," who starts by crawling on all fours and ends by using a stick as a third leg.

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άλλ' ίίτι κάλλιστοι» τε και ίμεροεστατον άλλων παΐδα φίλον Κρείοντος άμύμονος, Αΐμονα δΐον.

Cf. Apollod. Bibl. 3.5.8.

Θ Η Β Α Ϊ Σ

T E S T I M O N I A

IG 14.1292 i i 11, see above.

Paus. 9.9.5

έποιήθη δε ες τον πόλεμον τούτον και επη θηβαις. τά δε επη ταύτα }ίαλλΐνος άφικόμενος αυτών ες μνήμην εφησεν "Ομηρον τον ποιήσαντα είναι· Κ,αλλίνωι δε πολλοί τε και άζιοι λόγου κατά ταΰτά έγνωσαν, εγώ δε την ποίησιν ταΰτην μετά γε Ίλιάδα και τά επη τά ες Όδυσσεα επαινώ μάλιστα.

Ps.-Herod. Vita Homeri 9

κατήμενος δέ εν τώι σκντείωι, παρεόντων και άλλων, την τε ποίησιν αΰτοΐς επεδείκνυτο, Άμφιάρεώ τε την έζελασίαν την ες Θήβας, και τους ύμνους τους ες θεούς πεποιημενους αντώι.

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But also the handsomest and loveliest of all, the dear son of blameless Creon, noble Haemon. 2

THEBAID

T E S T I M O N I A

Borgia plaque, see above.

Pausanias, Description of Greece

There was also an epic composed about this war, the Thebaid. Callinus in referring to this epic said that Homer was its author, and many worthy critics have agreed with Calhnus. I myself rate this poem the best after the Iliad and the Odysseus epic.

Pseudo-Herodotus, Life of Homer

As he sat in the cobbler's shop, with others also present, he would perform his poetry for them, Amphiaraus' Expedition to Thebes, and the Hymns that he had composed to the gods.

2 Sophocles makes Haemon the fiance' of Antigone.

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1 Certamen Homeri et Hesiodi 15

ό δε "Ομηρος αποτυχών της νίκης περιερχόμενος έλεγε τα ποιήματα, πρώτον μεν την θηβαίδα, έπη ,ζ, ης ή αρχή-

"Αργός άειδε, θεά, πολυδίφιον, ένθεν άνακτες.

2 Ath. 465e

ό δε Οιδίπους δι εκπώματα τοις υ'ιοίς κατηράσατο, ώς ό την κυκλικήν θηβαίδα πεποιηκώς φησιν, οτι αντώι παρ-εθηκαν έκπωμα ο άπηγορεύκει, λέγων ούτως-

αύταρ 6 διογενής ήρως ζανθος ΐίολυνείκης πρώτα μεν Οίδιπόδηι καλήν παρεθηκε τράπεζαν άργυρέην Κάδμοιο θεόφρονος- αύταρ έπειτα χρύσεον έμπλησεν καλόν δέπας ήδεος οίνου.

5 αύταρ ό γ' ώς φράσθη παρακείμενα πατρός ioîo τιμήεντα γέρα, μέγα οι κακόν έμπεσε θυμώι, αίψα δε παιο-îv έοισι μετ' άμφοτέροισιν έπαράς άργαλέας ήρατο, θεάν δ' ού λάνθαν 'Έ,ρινύν, ώς ου οί πατρώί' ένηέϊ <εν> φιλότητι

10 δάσσαιντ', άμφοτέροισι δ' άει πόλεμοι τε μάχαι τε . . .

8 θεαν Robert: θεον codd. 9 πατρώϊ' ένηέϊ έν Ribbeck: πατρωιαν εΐη cod. 10 δάσσαιντ' Hermann: δάσαντο cod.: δάσσοντ' Wackernagel.

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F R A G M E N T S

1 The Contest of Homer and Hesiod

Homer, after his defeat in the contest, went about reciting his poems: firstly the Thebaid (7,000 lines), which begins

Sing, goddess, of thirsty Argos, from where the lords

2 Athenaeus, Scholars at Dinner

Oedipus cursed his sons on account of cups, as the author of the Cyclic Thebaid says, because they set before him a cup that he had forbidden. These are his words:

But the highborn hero, flaxen-haired Polynices, firstly set beside Oedipus the fine silver table of Cadmus the godly; then he filled his fine gold cup with sweet wine. But when he became aware that his fathers precious treasures had been set beside him, some great evil invaded his heart, and at once he laid dreadful curses on both his sons, which the divine Erinys did not fail to note: that they should not divide their patrimony in friendship, but the two of them ever in battle and strife . . .

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3 Schol. Soph. Oed. Col. 1375

ol irepl 'EreoKXea KO.1 TloXwelK-qv, 6Y êdov<s ëxovres rait Trarpl OtSiiroSt Ttiprntiv è$ é/cào"Tov Upeiov /xoîpav TOV &p.ov, èKkaOopevol iroTt, être Kara pauo-riovnv e'lre «f ÔTOVOÛV, ICT)(LOV aï/rai éirepApai'- o Sè p.iKpo<jjvxo><; KOI

reXécoç àyewcùç, ô/ntuç S' ovv àpàç 'édtro KWT avrS>v, Sdfaç Karokiyiopelaffai. raûra 6 rrçi' /CI>KXIKT)I> ®7)/3aî8a rrotijcraç IcrTopeî OVT<OT

io~xlov â)ç èvor/o-e xap.al /3aXei> eîrré re p,v6ov "ait p.oi èyw, TraîSeç /xév oVetSetofreç erre/xt/rac . . . "

evKTO A i t ySaciXr/i /cat âXXotç àdavârouriv, Xepoïv VIT àXXtjXoii' Kara^r/p-evai "AïSoç eïo-a>.

4 *

"ASpTjo-TOf pÀkiynpvv

Plat. PTiaeoV. 269a

TI Sè TOV pt\iy7)pvv "ASpacrrov oLoueûa r) «ai LTe/ai/cXta, et aKovo-etav &v vvv Sr) r)jLt£tç Strjt/xev raw TrayKaXûje TtXynpÂTOiV, KTX.

5 Apollod. B i M 1.8.4

'AX#ataç Sè àiroOavovaris eyqp,ev Otveùç Tlepifioiav r r j f '\TTTTOV6OV. TWÔTI)V Sè ô /ièv ypâupaç TTJV ®T;ySa't8a 7roX«-

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3 Scholiast on Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus

Eteocles and Polynices, who customarily sent their father Oedipus the shoulder as his portion from every sacrificial animal, omitted to do so on one occasion, whether from simple negligence or for whatever reason, and sent him a haunch. He, in a mean and thoroughly ignoble spirit, but all the same, laid curses on them, considering he was being slighted. The author of the Cyclic Thebaid records this as follows:

When he realized it was a haunch, he threw it to the ground and said, "Oh, my sons have insultingly sent He prayed to Zeus the king and to the other immortals that they should go down into Hades' house at each other's

4 *

Adrastus the honey-voiced

Plato, Phaedrus

How do we imagine the honey-voiced Adrastus or even Pericles would react, if they could hear of the wonderful rhetorical devices we were just going through, etc.

5 Apollodorus, The Library

When Althaea died, Oineus married Periboia the daughter of Hipponoos. The writer of the Thebaid says that Oineus got her

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μηθε'ισης Ώλένου λέγει λαβείν Οίνέα γέρας- Ησίοδος δε (fr. 12 M.-W.) . . . έγεννήθη δε εκ ταύτης Ο'ινει Τυδενς.

6

άμφότερον μάντίς τ αγαθός και δουρι μάχεσθαι.

Pind. ΟΙ 6.15

επτά δ' έπειτα πνραι νεκρών τελεσθέντων Ύαλαϊονίδας I ε'ιπεν έν θήβαισι τοιούτον τι επος- "ποθέω στρατιάς όφθαλμον εμάς, I άμφότερον μάντ'ιν τ αγαθόν και δονρι μάρνασθαι." Schol. ad loc. 6 Άσκληπιάδης φησι ταύτα είληφέναι έκ της κνκλικής θηβαιδος.

Versum heroicum restituit Leutsch; item CEC 519.2 (Attica, s. iv).

7* Schol. Pind. Nem. 9.30b

διαφορά δε έγενήθη τοις περί Άμφιάραον και "Κδραστον, ώστε τον μεν Ύαλαον ύπο Αμφιάραου άποθανεΐν, τον δε "Αδραστον φυγείν εις Χικνώνα . . . ύστερον μέντοι συν-εληλυθασι πάλιν, έφ' ώι συνοικήσει τήι 'Έιριφύληι 6 Αμφιάραος, ΐνα ε'ί τι

μέγ' έρισμα μετ' άμφοτεροισι γένηται,

αύτη διαιτάι.

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as a prize from the sack of Olenos, whereas Hesiod says . . . From her Tydeus was born to Oineus.

6 (Amphiaraus), both a good seer and good at fighting

with the spear.

Pindar, Olympian Odes

Then after the seven dead were hallowed on the pyre, the son of Talaos3 at Thebes said something like this: " I miss my army's seeing eye, both a good seer and good at fighting with the spear." Scholiast: Asclepiades (of Myrlea) says Pindar has taken this from the Cyclic Thebaid.

7* Scholiast on Pindar

A quarrel came about between Amphiaraus and Adrastus, with the consequence that Talaos was killed by Amphiaraus and Adrastus fled to Sicyon . . . But later they came to terms, it being provided that Amphiaraus should marry Eriphyle,4 so that i f any

great dispute should arise between the two of them,

she would arbitrate.

3 Adrastus. 4 Adrastus' sister.

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8*

"πουλύποδός μοι, τίκνον, έχων νόον, Άμφίλοχ' ηρως,

τοίσιν εφάρμοζαν, των κεν κατά δήμον ϊκηαι, άλλοτε δ' άλλοιος τελέθειν και χροιήι επεσθαι."

1-2 Ath. 317a ομοίως ιστορεί και Κλέαρχος, εν δευτέρωι περί παροιμιών (fr. 75 Wehrli) παρατιθέμενος τάδε τά έπη, ού δήλων οτον εστί- "πονλύποδός—ϊκηαι". Antig. Caryst. Mirab. 25 όθεν δήλον και 6 ποιητής το θρνλονμενον έγραφεν "πουλύποδός—έφαρμόζειν".

3 Zenob. vulg. 1.24 "άλλοτε—επεσθαι"· οτι προσήκει εκαστον εζομοιονν εαυτόν τούτοις εν οϊς αν και γενηται τόποις- εκ μεταφοράς τού πολύποδος. Item fere Diogenian. 1.23.

1-2 cum 3 coniunxit Bergk 1 έχων έν στήθεσι θνμόν Antig. 2 έφαρμόζων vel -ζον Ath. codd. των κεν κατά Schweig-hâuser: ων και vel κε Ath. codd. 3 άλλοίος Bergk: -ον codd. χροιήι West: χώρα codd.

9 * Schol. (D) II. 5.126

Τυδεύς ό ΟΊνέως έν τώι θηβαϊκώι πολέμωι υπό Μελα-νίππον τού Αστακού έτρώθη, Άμφιάρεως δε κτείνας τον ΝΙελάνιππον την κεφαλήν εκόμισεν. και άνοίζας αυτήν 6 Ύυδεύς τον έγκέφαλον έρρόφει άπο θυμού. Αθηνά δέ, κομίζουσα Τυδεί άθανασίαν, ίδούσα το μίασμα άπ-εστράφη αύτον. Ύυδεύς δέ γνονς έδεήθη της θεού ινα κάν

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8*

"Pray hold to the octopus' outiook, Amphilochus my son,5

and adapt i t to whatever people you come among; be changeable, and go along with the color."

1-2 Athenaeus, Scholars at Dinner: Clearchus records likewise in the second book of his work On Proverbs, quoting these verses without declaring whose they are: "Pray hold— come among." Antigonus of Carystus, Marvels: Hence the Poet6 wrote the much-quoted words "Pray hold—adapt it ." 3 Zenobius, Proverbs: "Be changeable—color": meaning that one should assimilate himself to the surroundings he finds himself in. I t is a metaphor from the octopus.

9 * Scholiast on the Iliad

Tydeus the son of Oineus in the Theban war was wounded by Melanippus the son of Astacus. Amphiaraus killed Mela-nippus and brought back his head, which Tydeus split open and gobbled the brain in a passion. When Athena, who was bringing Tydeus immortality, saw the horror, she turned away from him. Tydeus on realizing this begged the goddess at least

5 The speaker is Amphiaraus. 6 Perhaps meaning "Homer."

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τώι παιδί αυτόν παράσχηι την άθανασίαν.

Similiter schol. (AbT), ubi additur Ιστορεί Φερεκύδης (3 F 97): ή ιστορία παρα τοις κνκλικοίς G m.rec. suo Marte ut videtur.

1 0 Paus. 9.18.6

και ό Άσψόδικος ούτος άπέκτεινεν εν τηι μάχηι τήι προς Αργείους ΤΙαρθενοπαΐον τον Ύαλαού, καθά οι Θηβαίοι λέγονσιν, έπει τά γε εν θηβαίδι έπη τα ες την ΤΙαρ-θενοπαίον τελεντήν ΤΙερικλύμενον τον άνελόντά φησιν είναι.

1 1 Schol. (D) II. 23.346

Ποσειδών έρασθεϊς 'Έ,ρινύος και μεταβαλών την αυτού φυσιν εις ϊππον έμίγη κατά Βοιωτίαν παρά τήι Τιλ-φούσηι κρήνηι- ή δε έγκυος γενομένη ϊππον έγέννησεν, ός δια το κρατιστεύειν Αρίων εκλήθη. Κ-οπρεύς Αλιάρτου βασιλεύων πόλεως Βοιωτίας έλαβεν δωρον αυτόν παρά Ποσειδώνος· ούτος δε αυτόν 'ΐίρακλέΐ έχαρίσατο γενο-μένωι παρ' αντώι. τούτωι δε διαγωνισά/ιενος ό Ηρακλής προς Κύκνον τον "Αρεως υ'ιόν καθ' Ιπποδρομίαν ένίκησεν εν τώι τον Παγασαίου Απόλλωνος ϊερώι, δ εστι προς ϊΎροιζήνι. ε'ιθ' ύστερον αύθις ό Ηρακλής Άδράστωι τον πώλον παρέσχεν νφ' ον μόνος ό "Αδραστος εκ τού θηβαϊκού πολέμον διεσώθη, των άλλων άπολομένων. ή ιστορία παρά τοις κνκλικοϊς.

Cf. schol. (Τ) 347; Apollod. Bibl. 3.6.8.

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to bestow the immortality on his son. 7

Some manuscripts add "The story is in Pherecydes"; in one a late hand adds "The story is in the Cyclic writers."

1 0 Pausanias, Description of Greece

And this Asphodicus in the battle against the Argives killed Parthenopaeus the son of Talaos, according to what the Thebans say; the verses about Parthenopaeus' death in the Thebaid make Periclymenus the one who slew him.

1 1 Scholiast on the Iliad

Poseidon fell in love with Erinys, and changing his form into a horse he had intercourse with her by the fountain Tilphousa in Boeotia. She conceived and gave birth to a horse, which was called Arion because of its supremacy.8 Copreus, who was king at Haliartus, a town in Boeotia, received him from Poseidon as a gift. He gave him to Heracles when the latter stayed with him. Heracles used him to compete against Ares' son Cycnus in a horse race at the shrine of Pagasaean Apollo, which is near Troezen, 9 and won. Then Heracles gave the foal hi turn to Adrastus, and thanks to him Adrastus alone was saved from the Theban war when all the others perished. The story is in the Cyclic poets.

7 Diomedes. 8 The name suggested aristos, "best." 9 Perhaps an error for "Trachis." Heracles has Arion in his fight

against Cycnus in pseudo-Hesiod, Shield of Heracles 120. It is mentioned as Adrastus' steed, a byword for swiftness, at II. 23.346.

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Paus. 8.25.7-8

τήν δε Δήμητρα τεκείν φασιν έκ τον Ποσειδώνος θνγα-τέρα ... και ΐππον τον Άρίονα ... επάγονται δε έζ Ίλιάδος £7τη και έκ θηβαίδος μαρτύρια σφισιν είναι τοΰ λόγου, έν μεν Ίλιάδι (23.346-347) ες αυτόν Άρίονα πεποιήο-θαι-. . . εν δε τήι θηβαιδι ώς Άδραστος εψευγεν έκ Θηβών

ειματα λνγρά φέρων <τύν Άρίονι κνανοχαίτηι.

αίνίσσεσθαι ονν έθέλονσι τα έπη Ποσειδώνα Άρίονι είναι πατέρα.

εϊματα codd.: σήματα Beck.

Ε Π Ι Γ Ο Ν Ο Ι

1 Certamen Homeri et Hesiodi 15

ό δε "Ομηρος αποτυχών της νίκης περιερχόμενος έλεγε τα ποιήματα, πρώτον μέν την θηβαίδα . . . είτα Επιγόνους, έπη /ζ, ών ή άρχή-

Νυν ανθ' όπλοτέρων ανδρών άρχώμεθα, Μοΰσαι.

φάσι γάρ τίνες και ταύτα Όμηρου είναι.

W Or, with Beck's emendation (Mus. Helv. 58 (2001), 137-139), "bearing the sad symbols," that is, tokens that the Seven had attached to Adrastus' chariot before they started, as keepsakes for their heirs if they perished. See Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 49-51.

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They say that Demeter bore a daughter by Poseidon . . . and the horse Arion . . . And they adduce verses from the Iliad and from the Thebaid as evidence of their tale, saying that in the Iliad it is written of Arion himself. . . and in the Thebaid that Adrastus fled from Thebes,

his clothes in sorry state,1 0 with Arion the sable-haired.

So they want the verse to hint that Poseidon was father to Arion. 1 1

EPIGONI

1 The Contest of Homer and Hesiod

Homer, after his defeat in the contest, went about reciting his poems: firstly the Thebaid . . . and then the Epigoni (7,000 lines), which begins

But now, Muses, let us begin on the younger men.

(For some say that this too is Homer's work.)

1 1 Because "sable-haired" is usually an epithet of Poseidon. Later poets hint at Arion uttering prophetic speech at the Games for Archemoros at Nemea (Propertius 2.34.37) or when Adrastus fled from the war at Thebes (Statius, Thebaid 11.442). Their source may be Antimachus, but it is possible that the motif appeared in the Cyclic epic; compare the speech of Achilles' horse Xanthus in Iliad 19.404 ff.

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Schol. Ar. Pac. 1270, "νυν ανθ' όπλοτέρων ανδρών άρχώ-μεθα"

αρχή δε τών Επιγόνων Αντιμάχου.

2 Clem. Strom. 6.12.7

Αντιμάχου τε του Ύηίον ε'ιπόντος

εκ γαρ δώρων πολλά κάκ' άνθρώποισι πελονται,

Αγίας έποίησεν (Nosti fr. 7).

3 * Phot., Et. Gen., Suda s.v. Ύενμησ'ια

περί της Ύενμησίας αλώπεκος ο'ι τά θηβαϊκά γεγραφη-κότες Ίκανώς Ίστορήκασι, καθάπερ Αριστόδημος (FGr Hist 383 F 2)· έπιπεμφθήναι μεν γάρ υπό θεών τό θηρίον τούτο τοις Καδμείοις, διότι της βασιλείας εζέκλειον τους άπό Κάδμου γεγονότας. Κέφαλον δε φασι τον Αηϊόνος, Αθήναιον όντα και κννα κεκτημένον δν ουδέν διέφευγεν τών θηρίων, ώς άπέκτεινεν άκων την εαυτόν γυναίκα ΤΙρόκριν, καθηράντων αυτόν τών Καδμείων, διώκειν την άλώπεκα μετά του κυνός- καταλαμβανόμενους δε περί τον Ύενμησόν λίθους γενέσθαι τόν τε κννα καϊ την άλώπεκα. είλήφασι δέ ούτοι τόν μνθον εκ τού επικού κύκλον.

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Scholiast on Aristophanes, "But now, Muses, let us begin on the younger men"

It is the beginning of the Epigoni of Antimachus.

2 Clement of Alexandria, Miscellanies

And where Antimachus of Teos had said

For from gifts much i l l comes to mankind, 1 2

Agias wrote: [see Returns, fr. 7.]

3 * Photius, Lexicon

Concerning the Teumesian Fox the writers of Theban history have given a sufficient account, for example Aristodemus. They say that the animal was sent upon the Thebans by the gods because they were excluding the descendants of Cadmus from the kingship. They say that Cephalus the son of Deion, an Athenian who had a hunting dog that no animal could escape, after accidentally killing his wife Procris and being purified by the Cadmeans, hunted the fox with his dog; and that just as it was catching it near Teumesos, both the dog and the fox were turned to stone. These writers have taken the myth from the Epic Cycle.1 3

1 2 Probably an allusion to the bribing of Eriphyle. 1 3 The story was presumably told in one of the Theban epics. It

is assigned to the Epigoni on the hypothesis that it was after the death of Eteocles that the Thebans excluded Cadmus' descendants from the kingship.

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4 Schol. Ap. Rhod. 1.308b

oi δε την ®ηβαιδα γεγραφότες φασίν δτι υπό των Επιγόνων άκροθίνιον άνετέθν Μαντώ ή Teipecriou θυγαττηρ εις Δελφούς πεμφθεΐσα- και κατά χρ-ησμον Απόλλωνος εξερχόμενη περιέπεσε 'Ρακίωι τώι Αέβητος υ'ιώι, Μυκη-να'ιωι τό γένος, και γημαμέντη αύτώι (τούτο γαρ περιείχε τό λόγιον, γαμεΐσθαι ώι αν συναντήσει), έλθούσα εις Κολοφώνα και εκεί δυσθνμησασα έδάκρνσε διά την τής πατρίδος πόρθτησιν διόπερ ώνομάσθτ) Κλάρος άπό των δακρύων, έποίτησεν δε 'Απόλλωνι ιερόν.

5 Herod. 4.32

άλλ' 'ΐίσιόδωι μέν έστι περί 'Ύπερβορέων είρημένα (fr. 150.21 M.-W.), έστι δε και Όμήρωι έν 'Έ/πιγόνοισι, ει δή τώι έόντί γε "Ομηρος ταύτα τά έπεα έποιησε.

Α Λ Κ Μ Ε Ω Ν Ι 2

1 Schol. Eur. Andr. 687

και 6 τήν 'Αλκμαιωνίδα πεποι-ηκώς φησι περί τού Φώκον

ένθά μιν άντίθεος Ύελαμών τροχοειδέϊ δ'ισκωι

πλήξε κάρ·η, ΐΙτρΧεύς δέ θοώς ανά χείρα

τανύσσας

άξίνηι ενχάλκωι έπεπλήγει μέσα νώτα.

1 μιν Schwartz: κεν codd.

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4 Scholiast on Apollonius of Rhodes

The writers of the Thebaid14 say that Teiresias' daughter Manto was sent to Delphi by the Epigoni and dedicated as a tithe; and she went out in obedience to an oracle of Apollo and encountered Rhakios the son of Lebes, a Mycenaean by blood. She married him—this was part of the oracle, that she should marry the first man she met—and went to Colophon, and there, overcome by sorrow, she wept for the sack of her native city. Hence the place was named Claros, from her tears.15 And she established a shrine for Apollo.

5 Herodotus, History

But Hesiod has mention of the Hyperboreans, and so does Homer in the Epigoni, i f Homer really composed this poem.

ALCMEONIS

1 Scholiast on Euripides

And the author of the Alcmeonis says about Phocus:

There godlike Telamon hit him on the head with a wheel-shaped discus, and Peleus quickly raised his arm above his head and struck him in the middle of his back with a bronze axe.16

1 4 Assumed to be an error for the Epigoni, unless this is here taken to be part of the Thebaid.

1 5 The implied etymology is from Mao, " I weep." 1 6 Phocus (ancestor of the Phocians), Telamon, and Peleus

were the three sons of Aeacus. After the murder Telamon went to live on Salamis and Peleus to Thessaly.

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2 Ath. 460b

καϊ 6 τήν Άλκμαιωνίδα δε ποιήσας φησίν

νέκνς δε χαμαιστρώτον επι τείνας ενρείης σ-τιβάδος προέθηκ αντοισι θάλειαν δαΐτα ποτήρια τε, στεφάνονς τ επί κρασίν

έθηκεν.

3 Et. Gud. s.v. Ζαγρενς

6 μεγάλως άγρενων, ώς-

"ποτνια Τή, Ζαγρεν τε θεών παννπερτατε πάντων",

6 τήν Άλκμαιωνίδα γράφας έφη.

Cf. 'Έ,κλογαί διαφόρων ονομάτων, Anecd. Οχ. ίί 443.8.

4 Apollod. Bibl. 1.8.5

Τυδευν δε άνήρ γενόμενος γενναίος εφνγαδενθη κτείνας, ώς μεν τίνες λέγονο-ιν, άδελφόν Οινέως Άλκάθοον, ώς δε ό τήν Άλκμαιωνίδα γεγραφώς, τούς Μέλανος παιδας έπιβονλενοντας Ο'ινεΐ, Φηνέα Έίυρναλον 'Ύπέρλαον Άντί-οχον Έώμήδην Χτέρνοπα αάνθιππον Χθενέλαον.

5 Strab. 10.2.9

ό δέ τήν Άλκμεωνίδα γράφας 'ϊκαρίον τον ΐΐ-ηνελόπης

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The author of the Alcmeonis says too:

And laying the bodies out on a broad pallet spread on the ground, he set before them a rich banquet and cups, and put garlands on their heads.

3 Etymologicum Gudianum

Zagreus: the one who greatly hunts, as the writer of the Alcmeonis said:

"Mistress Earth, and Zagreus highest of all the gods." 1 7


Tydeus grew into a gallant man, but was forced into exile after killing, as some say, Oineus' brother Alcathous, but as the writer of the Alcmeonis says, the sons of Melas, who were plotting against Oineus: Pheneus, Euryalus, Hyperlaus, Antiochus, Eumedes, Sternops, Xanthippus, and Sthenelaus.

5 Strabo, Geography

But the writer of the Alcmeonis says that Icarius, Penelope's

1 7 The etymologist falsely explains Zagreus' name from za-"very" and agreuein "hunt." In Aeschylus (frs. 5,228) he is a god of the underworld. The line perhaps comes from a prayer in which Alcmaon called upon the powers of the earth to send up his father Amphiaraus.

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πατρός ν'ιεις γενέσθαι δύο, 'Αλνζέα καΐ Αευκάδιον, δννα-στεύσαι δε εν τήι 'Ακαρνανίαι τούτους μετά τον πατρός.

6 Schol. Eur. Or. 995

άκολονθεΐν άν δόξειεν τώι την 'Αλκμαιωνίδα πεποιηκότι εις τά περί την άρνα, ώς και Διονύσιος ό κνκλογράφος φησί(15F7). Φερεκύδης δέ(fr. 133Fowler) ού καθ' Ειρμού μήν'ιν φησι την άρνα ύποβληθήναι άλλα Αρτέμιδος, ό δέ την 'Αλκμαιωνίδα γράφας τον ποιμένα τον προσαγα-γόντα τό ποίμνιον τωι 'Ατρέί Αντίοχον καλεί.

7 Philod. De pietate Β 6798 Obbink

κα[ί της έ]πί Κρόνου ζω[ής εύ]δαιμονεστά[της ού]σης, ώς έγραφ[αν 'Ή.σί]οδος και ό την ['Αλκμ]εωνίδα ποή[σας, και] Σοφοκλής κτλ. (fr. 278 R.).

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father, had two sons, Alyzeus and Leucadius,18 and that they ruled with their father in Acamania.

6 Scholiast on Euripides, Orestes

Euripides would appear to be following the author of the Alcmeonis in regard to the story about the lamb, 1 9 as Dio-nysius the Cyclographer also says. Pherecydes says that it was not from Hermes' wrath that the lamb was put into the flock, but from Artemis'. And the writer of the Alcmeonis calls the shepherd who brought the lamb to Atreus Antiochus.

7 Philodemus, On Piety

And the life in the time of Kronos was most happy, as [Hesi]od and the author of the [Alcm]eonis have written, and Sophocles etc.

1 8 Mythical eponyms of the Acarnanian town Alyzea and the nearby island of Leucas.

1 9 A golden lamb was discovered in Atreus' flocks, and on the strength of this he claimed the kingship. His brother Thyestes seduced his wife and got possession of the lamb, but was banished. The story may have been told in the Alcmeonis as a parallel to Eriphyle's fatal betrayal of her husband.

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Κ Τ Π Ρ Ι Α

T E S T I M O N I A

Ael. V.H. 9.15

λέγεται δε κάκεΐνο προς τούτοις, ότι άρα άπορων έκδούναι την θυγατέρα ("Ομηρος) έδωκεν αύτήι προίκα έχειν τά έπη τά Κυπριά- και ομολογεί τούτο Πίνδαρος (fr. 265 Sn.-M.).

Cf. Hesych. Mil. Vita Homeri 5; Tzetz. Hist. 13.631^.

Arist. Poet. 1459a37, see below, Testimonia to the Little Iliad.

Merkelbach-Stauber, Steinepigramme aus dem griechischen Osten 01/12/02 (de Halicarnasso)

45 έσπειρεν ΐΐανύασσιν έπων άρίσημον άνακτα, Ίλιακών Κνπρίαν τ'ικτεν άοιδοθέτην.

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CYPRIA

T E S T I M O N I A

Aelian, Historical Miscellany

This too is said in addition, that when Homer had no means of giving his daughter in marriage, he gave her the epic Cypria to have as her dowry; and Pindar agrees on this.

Aristotle, Poetics: see below, Testimonia to the Little Iliad

Halicarnassian inscription (second century B C )

(This city) sowed the seed of Panyassis, famous master of epic verse; it gave birth to Cyprias, the poet of Trojan epic.

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Phot. Bibl. 319a34

λέγει δε (Πρόκλος) και περί τίνων Κυπρίων ποιημάτων, και ώς οι μεν ταντα εις "ϊ,τασινον άναφέρονσι Κύπριον, οι δέ 'Ήγησΐνον τον Έ,αλαμίνιον αύτοΐς έπιγράφονσιν, οι δε "Ομηρον γράφαι, δούναι δε νπέρ της θνγατρός Στασίνωι, και δια την αυτόν πατρίδα Κύπρια τον πόνον έπικληθήναι. άλλ' ού <προσ>τί-θεται ταύτηι τήι αίτίαι, μηδέ γαρ Κύπρια προπαροζυ-τόνως έπιγράφεσθαι τα ποιήματα.

Schol. Clem. Protr. 2.30.5, "Κυπριακά ποιήματα"

Κύπρια ποιήματα είσιν τά τον κύκλου- περιέχει δέ άρπαγήν Ελένης, ό δέ ποιητής αυτών άδηλος- εις γάρ έστι των κυκλικών.

Schol. Dion. Thr. i.471.34 Hilgard, see the Testimonia to the Margites.

A R G U M E N T U M

Proclus, Chrestomathia, suppleta ex Apollod. epit. 3.1-33

επιβάλλει τούτοις τά λεγόμενα Κύπρια εν βιβλίοις φερόμενα ένδεκα, ών περί της γραφής ύστερον έρον-μεν, ίνα μή τον έζής λόγον νυν έμποδίζωμεν. τά δέ περιέχοντα έστι ταντα-

1 Proclus was wrong. Kypna was proparoxytone, being the neuter plural adjective, "Cyprian," agreeing with poiemata or epea, "verses." The Halicarnassians, however, to appropriate the

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Photius, Library

(Proclus) also speaks of some poetry called Cypria, and of how some attribute it to Stasinus of Cyprus, while some give the author's name as Hegesinus of Salamis, and others say that Homer wrote i t and gave it to Stasinus in consideration of his daughter, and that because of where he came from the work was called Cypria. But he does not favor this explanation, as he says t i e poem's tide is not Kypria with proparoxytone accent.1

Scholiast on Clement of Alexandria

"The Cyprian poem" is the one belonging to the Cycle; it deals with the rape of Helen. Its poet is uncertain, being one of the Cyclics.

A R G U M E N T

Proclus, Chrestomathy, with additions and variants from Apollodorus, The Library2

This 3 is succeeded by the so-called Cypria, transmitted in eleven books; we wi l l discuss the spelling of the t ide 4 later, so as not to obstruct the flow of the present account. Its contents are as follows.

work for themselves (see the inscription above, and below, frs. 5 and 10), claimed that Kypria was to be read paroxytone, that is, "by Cyprias," this being supposedly the name of a Halicarnassian poet. Proclus apparently accepted this.

2 Enclosed in angle brackets; see Introduction, pp. 12 f. 3 We do not have what preceded this excerpt in Proclus' work,

but it was no doubt an account of the Theban cycle. 4 See the note above on the Photius passage.

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(1) Ζεύς βουλεύεται μετά της θέμιδος1 περί τον Τρωικού πολέμον. παραγενομένη δέ 'Έρις ενωχονμέ-νων των θεών έν τοις ΤΙηλέως γάμοις νεΐκος περί κάλλους έν'ιστησιν 'Αθηναι, "ΐΐραι και Άφροδίτηι- α'ί προς Άλέξανδρον έν "ΐδηι κατά Διός προσταγήν ύφ' 'Έ,ρμού προς την κρίσιν άγονται. <αϊ δέ επαγγέλλονται δώρα δώσειν 'Αλεζάνδρωι- Ήρα μέν ούν έφη προκριθέίσα δώσειν βασιλείαν πάντων, Αθηνά δέ πολέμου νίκην, Αφροδίτη δέ γάμον 'ΈΧένης. Αρ.> και προκρίνει την Άφροδίτην έπαρθείς τοις 'Έλένης γάμοις Αλέξανδρος, έπειτα δέ Αφροδίτης νποθεμένης νανπηγεΐται. Κπηζαμένον νανς Φερέκλον Αρ.> καί "Έλενος περί των μελλόντων αντοΐς προθεσπίζει. καϊ ή Αφροδίτη Αίνείαν σνμπλεϊν αντώι κελεύει, καί Κασσάνδρα περί των μελλόντων πρόδηλοι.

(2) έπιβάς δέ τήι Αακεδαιμονίαι Αλέξανδρος ζενίζεται παρά τοις Ύννδαρίδαις, και μετά ταύτα έν τήι %πάρτηι παρά Μενελάωι <έπι εννέα ημέρας Αρ. >• και Έλένηι παρά τήν εύωχίαν δίδωσι δώρα ό Αλέξανδρος, και μετά ταύτα Μενέλαος εις Κρήτην έκπλεΐ <κηδενσαι τον μητροπάτορα Κατρέα Αρ.>, κελενσας τήν 'Έλένην τοις ξένοις τά επιτήδεια παρέχειν, έως αν άπαλλαγώσιν. έν τούτωι δέ Αφροδίτη συνάγει τήν 'Έιλένην τώι 'Αλεζάνδρωι. καί μετά τήν μ'ιζιν τά πλείστα κτήματα ενθεμένοι νυκτός άποπλέονσι. <ή δέ ένναετη Ερμιονην καταλιπούσα, ενθεμένη τά πλείστα τών χρημάτων, ανάγεται της ννκτος σνν αντώι. Αρ.> χειμώνα δέ αντοϊς έφίστησιν Ήρα, καί προσενεχθείς

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(1) Zeus confers with Themis about the Trojan War. As the gods are feasting at the wedding of Peleus, Strife appears and causes a dispute about beauty among Athena, Hera, and Aphrodite. On Zeus' instruction Hermes conducts them to Alexander on Ida for adjudication. <They promise Alexander gifts: Hera said that i f she were preferred she would give him kingship over all, Athena promised victory in war, and Aphrodite union with Helen. > Alexander, excited by the prospect of union with Helen, chooses Aphrodite. After that, at Aphrodite's instigation, ships are built <by Phereclusx Helenus prophesies what wi l l happen to them. Aphrodite tells Aeneas to sail with Alexander. And Cassandra reveals what wi l l happen.

(2) On landing in Lacedaemon, Alexander is entertained by the Tyndarids, and subsequently in Sparta by Menelaus, <for nine days >. While receiving this hospitality Alexander gives Helen presents. After this, Menelaus sails off to Crete <for the funeral of his maternal grandfather, Catreus>, instructing Helen to look after the visitors until their departure. Then Aphrodite brings Helen together with Alexander, and after making love they put most of Menelaus' property on board and sail away in the night. < Helen left behind her nine-year-old daughter Hermi-one.> But Hera sends a storm upon them, and after being

l 8e>i8os Heyne, cf. P. Oxy. 3829 ii 11: fcrioos codd.

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Σιδώνι ό Αλέξανδρος αίρει την πάλιν. <ενλαβονμένος δε Αλέξανδρος μη διωχθήι, πολύν διέτριφε χρόνον έν Φοινίκηι και Κυπρωι. Αρ.> και άποπλευσας εις "Ιλιον γάμους της Ελένης έπετέλεσεν.

(3) έν τούτωι δέ Κάστωρ μετά Πολυδευκους τάς "Ιδα καί Λυγκέως /3ονς ύφαιρούμενοι έφωράθησαν. και Κάστωρ μεν ύπό τοί "Ιδα αναιρείται, Αυγκεύς δε και "ΐδας ΰπό Πολυδειίκους. και Ζευς αύτοΐς ετερη-μερον νέμει την άθανασίαν.

(4) και μετά ταΰτα τ Ιρις άγγέλλει τώι Μενελάωι τά γεγονότα κατά τον οίκον ο δέ παραγενόμενος <είς Μυκη'νας Αρ.> -περί της έττ' "Ιλιον στρατείας βουλεύεται μετά τοΰ αδελφού, και πρός Νέστορα παραγίνεται Μενέλαος, Νέστωρ δε έν παρεκβάσει διηγείται αΰτωι ώς Έπωττεύς φθείρας την Λυκούργου2 θυγατέρα έζεπορθήθη, καί τά περί Οίδίπουν, καί την Ήρακλέ-ονς μανίαν, καί τά περί Θησέα καί 'Αριάδνην.

(5) έπειτα τους -ηγεμόνας άθροίζουσιν έπελθόντες την Ελλάδα. <ο δέ πέμπων κήρυκα προς έκαστον των βασιλέων των όρκων ύπεμίμνησκεν ων ώμοσαν, καί περί της ιδίας γυναικός έκαστον άσφαλίζεσθαι παρήινει, ϊσην λέγων γεγενήσ#αι την της Ελλάδος καταφρόνησιν καί κοινήν. Αρ. > καί μαίνεσθαι προσ-ποιησάμενον Όδυσσέα έπί τώι μη θέλειν σνστρατεν-εσθαι εφωρασαν, Παλαμήδοιις νποθεμένου τον υ'ιον Ύηλέμαχον έπί κόλασιν έξαρπάσαντες. <άρπάσας δέ Ύηλέμαχον εκ τον Πηνελόπης κόλπου ώς κτενών έζι-

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carried to Sidon, Alexander takes the city. <As a precaution, in case he was pursued, he stayed for a long time in Phoenicia and Cyprus. > And he sailed off to Ilion and celebrated a wedding with Helen.

(3) Meanwhile Castor and Polydeuces were caught stealing the cattle of Idas and Lynceus. And Castor was killed by Idas, but Lynceus and Idas were killed by Polydeuces. And Zeus awarded them immortality on alternate days.

(4) After this, Iris brings Menelaus the news of what has happened back home. He goes <to Mycenae> and confers with his brother about the expedition against Ilion. And Menelaus goes to Nestor, and Nestor in a digression relates to him how Epopeus seduced the daughter of Lycur-gus5 and had his city sacked; also the story of Oedipus, and the madness of Heracles, and the story of Theseus and Ariadne.

(5) Then they travel round Greece assembling the leaders. <Agamemnon sent a herald to each king reminding them of the oaths they had sworn; and he advised each one to make sure of his wife, as this contempt shown to Greece was an equal threat to all. > Odysseus feigned insanity, as he did not want to take part in the expedition, but they found him out by acting on a suggestion of Palamedes' and snatching his son Telemachus for a beating. <Palamedes snatched Telemachus from Penelopes bosom and drew his

5 Perhaps a mistake for "Lycus," the brother of Nycteus, whose daughter Antiope was seduced by Epopeus and recovered by Lycus. See Asius, fr. 1.

Λύκου Heyne.

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φούλκει. Αρ.χΜίνελαος συν Όδυσσεϊ και Ύαλθυβίωι προς <Υίινυραν είς> Κ,ύπρον έλθόντες συμμαχεΐν επειθον. ο δε 'Αγαμέμνονι μεν oil παρόντι θώρακα{ς\ έδωρήσατο- όμόσας δε πέμφειν πεντήκοντα ναύς, μιαν πεμφας ης ηρχεν < > 6 Πνγμαλίωνος3 και τάς λοιπάς εκ γης πλασας μεθήκεν εις τό πέλαγος. Αρ.>

(6) και μετά ταύτα σννελθόντες εις Αυλίδα θύουσι. και τά περί τον δράκοντα και τους στρονθούς γενόμενα δείκννται, και Κάλχας περί τών άποβησομένων προλέγει αντοίς.

(7) έπειτα άναχθέντες Ύενθρανίαι προσίσχονσι, και ταντην ώς "Ιλιον έπόρθονν. Ύήλεφος δέ έκβοηθεΐ, θέρσανδρόν τε τον Πολυνείκους κτείνει και αυτός υπό 'Αχιλλέως τιτρώσκεται. <τούς Μχχτούς καθοπλίσας έπί τάς ναΰς συνεδίωκε τούς "Έλληνας και πολλούς άπ-έκτεινεν, έν ο'ις και θέρσανδρόν τον Πολυνείκους ύποστάντα. όρμήσαντος δέ Άχιλλεως έπ' αυτόν ου μείνας έδιώκετο- και διωκόμενος εμπλακείς εις αμπέλου κλήμα τον μηρόν τιτρώσκεται δόρατι. Αρ.>4 άπο-πλέουσι δέ αύτοΐς έκ τής Μυσίας χειμών επιπίπτει και διασκεδάννννται. 'Αχιλλεύς δέ Χκύρωι προ<σ>-σχων γαμεΐ την Αυκομήδους θυγατέρα Αηϊδάμειαν. έπειτα Ύήλεφον κατά μαντείαν παραγενόμενον εις "Αργός ίάται 'Αχιλλενς ώς ηγεμόνα γενησόμενον τού έπ' "Ιλιον πλου. <Ύήλεφος δέ έκ τής Μυσίας, άνίατον τό τραύμα εχων, είπόντος αντώι τού Απόλλωνος τότε

3 ΐίνγμαλίωνος West: μνγδαλίωνος cod.

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sword as i f to ki l l him.> <Menelaus went with Odysseus and Talthybius to <Cinyras in> Cyprus and urged him to join the expedition. He made the absent Agamemnon a present of a cuirass; and after promising on oath to send fifty ships, he sent one, under the command of < > the son of Pygmalion, but the rest he shaped out of clay and launched them to sea. >

(6) After this they gather at Aulis and make sacrifice. And the episode of the snake and the sparrows is set forth , 6

and Calchas prophesies to them about the future outcome. (7) Then they put to sea and land at Teuthrania, and

they were setting out to sack i t thinking it was Ilion. Telephus comes out to defend it , kills Polynices' son Thersander, and is himself wounded by Achilles. <He armed the Mysians and pursued the Greeks to their ships and killed many of them, including Polynices' son Thersander, who had made a stand. But when Achilles charged at him, he did not stand fast but fled from him, and in his flight he became entangled in a vine branch, and got a spear wound in his thigh. > As they are sailing away from Mysia, a storm catches them and they become dispersed. Achilles lands on Scyros and marries Lycomedes' daughter Deidamea. Then Telephus comes to Argos on the advice of an oracle and Achilles heals him on the understanding that he wi l l be their guide when they sail against Il ion. <Telephus, his wound refusing to heal, and Apollo having told him that he would be cured when the one who caused

6 The episode recalled at Iliad 2.301-329.

4 Similar information is attributed to "post-Homeric poets" by schol. (D) II. 1.59.

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τεύζεσθαι θεραπείας όταν 6 τρώσας ιατρός γένηται, τρύχεσιν ήμφιεσμένος είς "Αργός άφίκετο, και δεηθείς 'Αχιλλέως και ύπεσχημένος τον είς Ύροίαν πλουν δεΐξαι θεραπεύεται άποζύσαντος 'Αχιλλέως της ΐΐηλι-άδος μελίας τον ιόν. θεραπευθείς ουν έδειξε τον πλουν, τό της δείζεως ασφαλές πιστονμένου του Κάλχαντος δια της εαυτού μαντικής. Αρ.> 5

(8) και τό δεύτερον ήθροισμένου του στόλου έν Ανλίδι Αγαμέμνων επί θήρας βαλών έλαφον ύπερ-βάλλειν έφησε και τήν "Αρτεμιν μηνίσασα δέ ή θεός έπέσχεν αυτούς τοΰ πλον χειμώνας έπιπέμπουσα. Ίίάλχαντος δέ είπόντος τήν της θεού μήνιν καί Ίφιγένειαν κελενσαντος θύειν τήι 'Αρτέμιδι, ώς επί γάμον αυτήν 'Αχιλλεΐ μεταπεμφάμενοι θύειν έπιχει-ρούσιν. <Κάλχας δέ έφη ουκ άλλως δύνασθαι πλεΐν αυτούς, ει μή τών Αγαμέμνονος θυγατέρων ή κρα-τιστεύονσα κάλλει σφάγιον Αρτέμιδος παραστήι . . . πέμφας Αγαμέμνων προς Κλυταιμήστραν Όδυσσέα καί Ταλθύβιον Ίφιγένειαν ήιτει, λέγων ύπεσχήσθαι δώσειν αυτήν 'Αχιλλεΐ γυναίκα μισθόν της στρατείας. Αρ.> "Αρτεμις δέ αυτήν έζαρπάσασα εις Ταύρους μετακομίζει καί άθάνατον ποιεί, έλαφον δέ αντί της κόρης παρίστησι τώι βωμώι.6

(9) έπειτα καταπλέουσιν είς Ύένεδον. Κταύτης

5 Similar information is attributed to "post-Homeric poets" by schol. (D) II. 1.59. 6 The story is told in similar terms in schol. (D) II. 1.106 = (A) 1.108-9b, and attributed to "many of the post-Homeric writers."

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the wound tended it , came from Mysia to Argos, clothed in rags, and after begging Achilles and undertaking to show the way to Troy, he was treated as Achilles scraped the verdigris off his ashwood spear from Pelion. 7 So he was cured and showed the ships the way, the rehability of his guidance being guaranteed by Calchas through his own gift of prophecy. >

(8) When the expedition was assembled at Aulis for the second time, Agamemnon killed a deer while hunting and claimed to surpass Artemis herself. The goddess in her wrath stopped them from sailing by sending wild weather. When Calchas told them of the goddess's wrath and said they should sacrifice Iphigeneia to Artemis, they sent for her as i f she was to marry Achilles, and set about to sacrifice her. < Calchas said they would only be able to sail i f the most beautiful of Agamemnon's daughters was offered as a sacrifice to Artemis . . . Agamemnon sent Odysseus and Talthybius to Clytaemestra to ask for Iphigeneia, saying he had promised her to Achilles as payment for his participation in the expeditions But Artemis snatches her away and conveys her to the Tauroi 8 and makes her immortal, setting a deer by the altar in place of the girl.

(9) Then they sail in to Tenedos. < Its king was Tennes,

7 The head of the spear was of bronze. The verdigris was applied to the wound. Apollodorus' narrative may be colored by Euripides' treatment of the story in his Telephus, in which Telephus' appearance in rags was a notorious spectacle.

8 A fierce people living in the Crimea. This is the setting of Euripides' Iphigeneia among the Tauroi.

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έβασίλευε Ύέννης 6 Κύκνου και Τίροκλείας, ώς δέ τίνες Απόλλωνος . . . προσπλέοντας ούν Τενέδωι τους "Ελληνας ορών Ύέννης άπείργε βάλλων πέτρους- και υπό 'Αχιλλέως ζίφει πληγείς κατά τό στήθος θνήι-σκει, καίτοι Θέτιδος προειπούο~ης Άχιλλεϊ μη κτεΐναι Ύέννην, τεθνήζεσθαι γάρ ύπό Απόλλωνος αυτόν, εάν κτείνηι Ύέννην. Αρ.> και εύωχουμένων αυτών Φιλοκτήτης ΰφ' {ίδρου πληγείς δια. τήν δυσοσμίαν εν Λήμνωι κατελείφθη. και Άχιλλεύς ύστερος κληθείς διαφέρε-ται προς Αγαμέμνονα. <τελούντων δε αυτών Άπόλ-λωνι θυσίαν, εκ του βωμού προσελθών ϋδρος δάκνει Φιλοκτήτην . . . Όδυσσεύς αυτόν εις Αήμνον μεθ' ών είχε τόξων Ηρακλείων έκτ'ιθησι, κελεύσαντος Αγαμέμνονος. Αρ.>

(10) έπειτα αποβαίνοντας αυτούς εις "Ιλιον εϊρ-γουσιν ο'ι Τρώες, και θνήισκει Πρωτεσίλαος ύφ' "Εκτορος- έπειτα 'Αχιλλεύς αυτούς τρέπεται άνελών Κύκνον τον Ποσειδώνος. <Άχιλλεί δε έπιστέλλει Θέτις, πρώτωι μή άποβήναι των νεών τον γάρ άποβάντα πρώτον, πρώτον μέλλειν και τελεντάν. πνθόμενοι δέ οί βάρβαροι τον στόλον έπιπλειν, συν δπλοις έπί τήν θάλασσαν ώρμησαν και βάλλοντες πέτροις άποβήναι έκώλυον. των δέ Ελλήνων πρώτος απέβη τής νηός Πρωτεσίλαος, και κτείνας ούκ ολίγους ύφ' 'Έκτορος θνήισκει. τούτου <ή> γυνή Λαοδάμεια και μετά θάνατον ήρα, και ποιήσασα εϊδωλον Πρωτεσιλάωι παραπλήσιον, τούτωι προσ-ωμίλει . . . Πρωτεσίλαου δέ τελευτήσαντος έκβαίνει

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son of Cycnus and Proclea, or as some say of Apollo . . . When Tennes saw the Greeks approaching Tenedos, he tried to repel them by throwing stones; and he was struck in the chest by Achilles with his sword and died, despite Thetis having warned Achilles not to kill Tennes, because i f he did so he would be killed by Apollo. > And Philoctetes was bitten by a water snake while they were feasting and left behind on Lemnos on account of the foul smell of his wound. And Achilles quarrels with Agamemnon because he received a late invitation. <As they were making sacrifice to Apollo, a water snake came up from the altar and bit Philoctetes . . . On Agamemnon's instructions Odysseus put him out on Lemnos with the bows of Heracles that he had.>

(10) Then they disembark at Ilion and the Trojans try to repel them, and Protesilaus is killed by Hector. But then Achilles turns them back by killing Cycnus, son of Poseidon. <Thetis told Achilles not to be the first to disembark from the ships, as the first to disembark would be the first to die. When the barbarians learned that the expedition was approaching, they armed themselves and made for the sea, and tried to prevent them from disembarking by throwing stones. The first of the Greeks to disembark was Protesilaus, and after killing no small number he was slain by Hector. His wife Laodamea loved him even after death, and making an image in his likeness she would have intercourse with i t . . . After Protesilaus' death Achilles disem-

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μετά Μυρμιδόνων Άχιλλΐύς και λίθον <βα>λών εις τήν κεφαλήν Κύκνου κτείνει. ώς δέ τούτον νεκρόν εΐδον ο'ι βάρβαροι, φεύγονσιν εις τήν πάλιν, οι δέ "Ελληνες εκπτηδήο-αντες των νεών ενέπλησαν σωμάτων το πεδίον και κατακλείσαντες τούς Τρώας έπολιόρκουν άνέλκουσι δέ τάς νανς. Αρ.> και τούς νεκρούς αναιρούνται, και διαπρεσβεύονται προς τους Τρώας, τήν Έλένην και τά κτήματα απαιτούντες- <καί πέμπουσιν Όδνσσέα και Μενέλαον τήν Έλένην και τά χρήματα αιτούντες, συναθ ροισθε'ισης δε παρά τοις Ύρωσίν εκκλησίας ού μόνον τήν 'Έλένην ούκ άπεδί-δουν, άλλα και τούτους κτείνειν ήθελον. τούτους μεν ουν εσωσεν Άντήνωρ. Αρ.> ώς δε ούχ ΰπήκουσαν εκείνοι, ενταύθα δη τειχομαχούσιν.

(11) έπειτα τήν χώραν έπεξελθόντες πορθούσι και τάς περιοίκους πόλεις, και μετά ταύτα 'Αχιλλεύς Ε λ έ νης επιθυμεί θεάσασθαι, και συνήγαγεν αυτούς εις τό αυτό Αφροδίτη και Θέτις. είτα άπονοστεΐν ώρμημέ-νους τους Αχαιούς Άχιλλεύς κατέχει, κάπειτα άπ-ελαννει τάς Αινείου βούς. <παραγίνεται εις "Ιδην έπί τάς Αινείου {τοΰ Πριάμου) βόας. φυγόντος δέ αυτού τούς βουκόλους κτεινας και Μήστορα τον Πριάμου τάς βόας έλαύνει. Αρ.> και Ανρνησσόν και Πήδασον πορθεί και σνχνάς τών περιοικίδων πόλεων, και Τρω-ΐλον φονεύει. <ένεδρεύσας Ύρωιλον εν τώι τοΰ Θυμ-βραίου Απόλλωνος ίερώι φονεύει, και νυκτός έλθών έπί τήν πάλιν Αυκάονα λαμβάνει. Αρ.> Αυκάονά τε Πάτροκλος εις Αήμνον άγαγών άττεμπολεΐ.

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barked with the Myrmidons, and threw a stone at Cycnus' head and killed him. When the barbarians saw that he was dead, they fled towards the city, while the Greeks leaped out of their ships and filled the plain with corpses; and shutting the Trojans in, they laid siege to them, and hauled the ships ashore. > And they take up their dead. And they send negotiators to the Trojans to demand the return of Helen and the property. <And they sent Odysseus and Menelaus, demanding Helen and the property. But when the Trojan assembly was convoked, not only did they refuse to surrender Helen, but they even wanted to ki l l the envoys; but they were saved by Antenor.> When they did not agree to the demands, then they began a siege.

(11) Next they go out over the country and destroy the surrounding settlements. After this Achilles has a desire to look upon Helen, and Aphrodite and Thetis bring the two of them together. Then when the Achaeans are eager to return home, Achilles holds them back. And then he drives off Aeneas' cattle. <He comes to Mount Ida after Aeneas' cattle. Aeneas himself escapes, but he kills the cowherds and Priam's son Mestor and drives off the cattle. >9 And he sacks Lyrnessus and Pedasus and many of the surrounding settlements, and he slays Troilus. <Ambushing Troilus at the shrine of Thymbraean Apollo he slays him. And he gets into the city in the night and captures Lycaon. > And Patroclus takes Lycaon to Lemnos and sells him into slavery.10

0 See Iliad 20.90-93, 188-194. 1 0 See Iliad 21.34-14, 23.746-747.

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(12) και εκ των λαφύρων Άχιλλεύς μεν Βρισηίδα

γέρας λαμβάνει, Χρυσηΐδα δέ Αγαμέμνων, έπειτα

έστι ΤΙαλαμήδους θάνατος- και Αιος βουλή δπως

έπικουφίσηι τούς Τρώας Αχιλλέα τής συμμαχίας τής

Ελλήνων αττοστησας·· και κατάλογος των τοις Τρωσι

συμμαχησάντων.

(1) Cf. P. Oxy. 3829 ϋ 9 ό Ζενς άσέβειαν καταγνονς τον ήρωϊκον γένους βουλεύεται μετά θέμιδος άρδην αυτούς άπολέσαι. θύων δε έν τώι Πηλίωι opei παρά Χ,είρωνι τώι Κενταύρωι τους Θέτιδος και ΤΙηλέως γάμονς τους μεν άλλους θεούς επί τήν έστία<σι>ν παρεκάλει, μόνην δέ τήν "Εριν είσιονσαν Έρμης κωλύει Διός κελενσαντος- ή δέ οργισθέίσα χρνσοΰν μήλον προ{σ]έρριφεν τώι σνμποσίωι, νπερ ου φιλονικίας γενομένης Ήρας και Αθηνάς και Αφροδίτης ό Ζενς έπαθλον προνθηκεν τήι καλλίστηι.

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1 Schol. (D) II. 1.5, "Διός δ' έτελείετο βουλή"

άλλοι δέ άπο Ιστορίας τίνος είπον είρηκέναι τον "Ομη-ρον. φασί γαρ τήν Τήν βαρονμένην νπο ανθρώπων πολυπληθίας, μηδεμιάς ανθρώπων ούσης ευσέβειας, αίτήσαι τον Δία κουφισθήναι τού άχθους- τον δέ Δία πρώτον μέν ευθύς ποιήσαι τον θηβαϊκον πόλεμον, δι' ου πολλούς πάνυ άπώλεσεν, ύστερον δέ πάλιν τον Ίλιακόν, συμβούλωι τώι Μώρ,ωι χρησάμενος, ην Αώς βουλήν "Ομηρος φησιν, επειδή οίος τε ήν κεραννοις ή κατα-κλνσμοις απαντάς διαφθείρειν όπερ τον Μώμον κωλύ-σαντος, ύποθεμένον δέ αύτώι γνώμας δύο, τήν Θέτιδος

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(12) And from the spoils Achilles gets Briseis as his prize, while Agamemnon gets Chryseis. Then comes the death of Palamedes; and Zeus' plan to relieve the Trojans by removing Achilles from the Greek alliance; and a catalog of the Trojans' allies.

(1) Oxyrhynchus papyrus (second century): Zeus, finding the race of heroes guilty of impiety, conferred with Themis about destroying them completely. When he was celebrating the wedding of Thetis and Peleus on Mount Pelion with the Centaur Chiron, he invited the other gods to the feast, but Strife alone was stopped at the door by Hermes on Zeus' orders. She was angry, and threw a golden apple into the party. A quarrel arose over it between Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite, and Zeus offered it as a prize for the most beautiful of them.

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1 Scholiast on the Iliad, "and Zeus' plan was being fulfilled"

Others have said that Homer was referring to a myth. For they say that Earth, being weighed down by the multitude of people, there being no piety among humankind, asked Zeus to be relieved of the burden. Zeus firstly and at once brought about the Theban War, by means of which he destroyed very large numbers, and afterwards the Trojan one, with Cavil as his adviser, this being what Homer calls the plan of Zeus, seeing that he was capable of destroying everyone with thunderbolts or floods. Cavil prevented this, and proposed two ideas to him, the marriage of Thetis to a mortal and the birth of a

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θνητογαμίαν και θνγατρος καλής ytvvav, έζ ων αμφοτέρων πόλεμος "Ελλψτί τ£ και βαρβάροις έγένΐτο, άφ' ον συνέβη κονφισθηναι την γην πολλών άναιρεθέντων. ή ht ιστορία παρά %τασίνωι τωι τά Κύπρια πεποιηκότι, ά-πόντι όντως·

ην οτί μνρία φΰλα κατά χθόνα πλαζόμενα <αίεί ανθρώπων i>ßapv<ve βαθν>στέρνον πλάτος αϊης. Ζευς δε ίδών ελέησε, και iv πυκιναΐς

πραπίδεσσιν κονφίσαι ανθρώπων παμβώτορα σύνθετο γαΐαν,

5 ριπίσσας πολέμον μεγάλην ίριν Ιλιακοΐο, δφρα κενώσειεν θανάτωι βάρος, οϊ δ' ένι Ύροίηι •ήρωες κτείνοντο, Διός· δ' έτελείετο βουλή.

1 suppl. Ebert, 2 Peppmüller 4 σύνθετο κονφίσαι παμβώτορα γαΐαν (γαίης) ανθρώπων codd.: corr. Ribbeck 5 ριπίσσας Wolf: ριπίσαι codd. 6 θανάτωι Lascaris: -του codd.

Cf. schol. Eur. Or. 1641.


ετι δε ό τ]ά Κύπ[ρια γράφας τηι "H]pai χαρ[ιζομένη]ν φεύγειν αν[την το]ν γάμον Δ[ιός- τον δ' 6]μόσαι χολω-[θέντ]α διότι θνη[τωι σν]νοικίσει.


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beautiful daughter. From these two events war came about between Greeks and barbarians, resulting in the lightening of the earth as many were killed. The story is found in Stasinus, the author of the Cypria, who says:

There was a time when the countless races <of men> roaming <constantly> over the land were weighing down the <deep->breasted earth's expanse. Zeus took pity when he saw it , and in his complex mind he resolved to relieve the all-nurturing earth of mankind's weight by fanning the great conflict of the Trojan War, to void the burden through death. So the warriors at Troy kept being killed, and Zeus' plan was being fulfilled.


And the author of t]he Cyp[ria says that it was to pl]ease Her[a that Thetis] shied away from the union with Z[eus; and he was angry, and swore to make her live with a mortal man.

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3 * 8οηο1. (Τ) II. 18.434α, "και 'έτλην άνέρος εννην πολλά

μάλ' ονκ έθέλουσα"

εντεύθεν οι νεώτεροι τάς μεταμορφώσεις αυτής φασιν.

α. Αρο11ο(1. ΒίΜ. 3.13.5 Χείρωνος ονν ύποθεμένου ΙΙηλεΐ συλ-λαβειν και κατασχείν αύτην μεταμορφουμένην, έπιτηρησας συναρπάζει, γινομένην δέ οτε μεν πΰρ, ότε δε ύδωρ, ότε δέ θηρίον, ον πρότερον άνηκε πριν η την άρχαίαν μορφην ειδεν άπολαβοΰσαν.

4 δοηοΐ. (Ό) II. 16.140

κατά γάρ τον ΐίηλέως και Θέτιδος γάμον οΐ θεοί συν-αχθέντες εις το ΐΐηλιον έπ' εϋωχίαι εκόμιζον ΐΐηλεΐ δώρα, Χειρών δε μελίαν εύθαλη τεμών εις δόρυ παρέσχεν. φασί δε Άθηνάν μεν ζέσαι αυτό, "Ηψαιστον δί κατασκενάσαι. τούτωι δε τώι δόρατι και ΤΙηλεύς εν ταις μάχαις ηρίστεν-σεν και μετα ταΰτα Αχιλλεύς. η ιστορία παρά τώι τά Κύπρια ποιησαντι.

Όί. Αρο11οά\ ΒίΜ. 3.13.5 γαμεΐ δέ εν τώι ΙΙηλίωι, κάκεΐ θεοί τον γάμον ενωχούμενοι καθύμνησαν. και δίδωσι Χειρών ΐΐηλεϊ δόρυ μείλινον, ΐίοσειδών δε ίππους Βαλίον και αάνθον αθάνατοι δε ήσαν ούτοι.

5 Α Λ . 6 8 2 ά - ί

ανθών δε στεφανωτικών μέμνηται ό μεν τά Κύπρια επη πεποιηκως Ηγησίας η Έτασΐνος <η και Κνπρίας>-Δημοδάμας γάρ ό Άλικαρνασσεύς η Μιλησιος εν τώι περί Αλικαρνασσού (ΡΰΓί/ίχί 428 Κ 1) Κνπρ'ια Άλικαρ-

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3 * Scholiast on the Iliad, "and I endured a man's bed much against my w i l l "

Hence post-Homeric authors tell of her metamorphoses.

Compare Apollodorus, The Library: So Chiron advised Peleus to catch her and hold her as she changed her shape, and he kept watch and seized her, and though she turned now into fire, now into water, now into an animal, he did not Jet go until he saw her resume her original form.

4 Scholiast on the Iliad

For at the wedding of Peleus and Thetis the gods gathered on Pelion to feast, and brought gifts for Peleus, and Chiron cut down a fine ash and gave him it for a spear. They say that Athena planed it and Hephaestus fashioned it. With this spear Peleus was supreme in battle, and afterwards Achilles. The story is found in the author of the Cypria.

Compare Apollodorus, The Library: He had his wedding on Pelion, and there the gods made the wedding feast and sang his praises. And Chiron gave Peleus an ashen spear, while Poseidon gave him die horses Balius and Xanthus, who were immortal.


Flowers in garlands are mentioned by the author of the Cypria, Hegesias or Stasinus < or Cyprias >; for Demodamas of Halicarnassus or Miletus in his work on Halicarnassus says

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νασσέως αυτά εϊναί φησι ποιήματα, λέγει Β' ούν όστις εστίν ô ποιήσας αυτά έν τωι α' ούτωσί-

εϊματα μέν χροϊ έστο, τά ο'ι Χάριτες τε και Ώραι '

ποίησαν και έβαφαν έν άνθεσιν είαρινοΐσιν δσσα φέρουσ' ωραι, εν τε κρόκωι έν θ' ΰακ'ινθωι έν τε ϊωι θαλέθοντι ρόδου τ ένι ανθεί καλώι ήδέϊ νεκταρέωι έν τ άμβροσίαις καλνκεσσιν ϊάνθεσι ναρκίσσου καλλιρρόου δ' o i a t Αφροδίτη ώραις παντοίαις τεθνωμένα εϊματα έστο.

ούτος 6 ποιητής και τήν των στεφάνων χρήσιν είδώς φαίνεται δι ων λέγει-

3 δσσα φέρουσ' Hecker: οία φορονσ' cod.

6

ή δέ συν άμφιπόλοισι φιλομμειδής Αφροδίτη < > πλεζάμεναι στεφάνους εύώδεας, άνθεα γαίης, άν κεφαλαΐσιν έθεντο θεαί λιπαροκρήδεμνοι, Νύμφαι καί Χάριτες, άμα δέ χρυσή Αφροδίτη, καλόν άείδουσαι κατ' όρος ττολυττιδάκου "Ιδης.

2 lac. stat. Kaibel 3 Άνθεα ποίης Hecker.

7* Naevius(?), Cypria Ilias fr. 1 Courtney (ex libro I)

collum marmoreum torques gemmata coronat.

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that it is a composition by Cyprias of Halicamassus. Anyway, whoever the author is, he says in Book 1:

Her body was dressed in garments that the Graces and Horai had made for her and steeped in all the spring flowers that the seasons bring forth, in crocus and hyacinth, and springing violet, and the rose's fair, sweet, nectarine bloom, and the ambrosial buds of narcissus . . . u So Aphrodite was dressed in garments scented with blossoms of every kind.

This poet is clearly also acquainted with the use of garlands, when he says:

6

And she with her attendants, smile-loving Aphrodite < . . . > They wove fragrant garlands, the flowers of the earth, and put them on their heads, those goddesses with glossy veils, the Nymphs and Graces, and golden Aphrodite with them, as they sang beautifully on Mount Ida of the many springs.

7* Naevius(?), The Cyprian Iliad, Book 1

Her gleaming neck was encircled by a jewelled torque.

1 1 Text corrupt.

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8 Schol. (D) II. 3.443

Αλέξανδρος νιος ΐίριάμον Τροίας βασιλέως, ό και Πάρις επικαλούμενος, Αφροδίτης έπιταγήι νανπηγήσαντος αύται νανς Αρμονίδον ή κατά τινας των νεωτέρων Φερέ-κλον τού τέκτονος, μετά Αφροδίτης ήλθεν εις Αακεδαί-μονα την Μενελάον πάλιν.

Cf. schol. (Α) II. 5.60a (Aristonici); schol. Nie. Ther. 268; Apollod. epit. 3.2 (supra in Argumenta).

9 Clem. Protr. 2.30.5

προσίτω δε και 6 τά Κνπριακά ποιήματα γράφας·

Κάστωρ μέν θνητός, θάνατον δέ οί αισα

πέπρωται,

αύτάρ δ γ' αθάνατος ΐίολνδεύκης, όζος "Αρηος.

1 0 Ath. 334b

ό τά Κύπρια ποιήσας έπη, είτε Κνπρίας τις έστιν ή Χτασΐνος ή όστις δή ποτέ χαίρει ονομαζόμενος, τήν Νέμεσιν ποιεί διωκομένην νπό Αιός και εις Ίχθνν μετα-μορφονμένην δια τούτων

τονς δέ μέτα τριτάτην 'Έιλένην τέκε, θαύμα

βροτοϊσιν

τήν ποτε καλλίκομος Νέμεσις φιλότητι μιγεΐσα

Ζηνί θεών βασιλήϊ τέκε κρατερής νπ' ανάγκης,

φεύγε γάρ, ούδ' έθελεν μιχθήμεναι έν φιλότητι

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Alexander, son of Priam the king of Troy, also known as Paris, after ships had been built for him on Aphrodite s instructions by Harmonides, or according to some of the post-Homeric writers by the joiner Phereclus, went with Aphrodite to Lacedaemon, the city of Menelaus.

9 Clement of Alexandria, Protreptic

Let the author of the Cypria also come forward:

Castor mortal, with death his destined lot, but Polydeuces immortal, scion of the War-god.

1 0 Athenaeus, Scholars at Dinner

The author of the epic Cypria, whether he is one Cyprias or Stasinus, or whatever he likes to be called, has Nemesis chased by Zeus and turning herself into a fish in these verses:

Third after them she (he?) gave birth to Helen, a wonder to mortals; whom lovely-haired Nemesis once bore, united in love to Zeus the king of the gods, under harsh compulsion. For she ran away, not wanting to unite in love with

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5 πατρί ΔΗ Κρονίωνι· ετείρετο yap φρένας αίδοΐ και νεμέσει- κατά γην δέ και άτρνγετον μέλαν

ύδωρ φενγε, Ζευς δ' έδίωκε—λαβείν δ' ελιλαίετο

θνμώι— άλλοτε μεν κατά κνμα πολυφλοίσβοιο θαλάσσης ίχθύϊ είδομένην, πόντον πολύν έζοροθύνων,

10 άλλοτ άν' Ώκεανον ποταμον καϊ πείρατα γαίης, άλλοτ' άν' ηπειρον πολνβώλακα- γίνετο δ' αίε'ι θηρ'ι, δσ' ήπειρος αίνά τρέφει, δφρα φύγοι μιν.

(Ath.) Κνπρ'ιας Severyns: Κύπριος cod. (fr.) 1 τους Meineke: τοις cod. 9 έζοροθύνων Wakefield: έξορόθννεν cod. 12 νιν cod.

1 1 Philod. De pietate Β 7369 Obbink

Νέμε]σίν τ ό τά Κύ[πρια γ]ράφας 6μοιωθέ[ντ]α χηνί και αύτ[6ν] διώκειν, και μιγέν[το] ς ωιόν τεκείν, [έζ] ον γενέσθαι την [Έλ]ένην.

Apollod. Bibl. 3.10.7

λέγονσι δέ 'ένιοι Νεμέσεως Έλένην είναι και Διός· ταύτην γαρ την Διός φεύγονσαν σννονσίαν ε'ις χηνα την μορφην μεταβαλεϊν, όμοιωθέντα δέ και Δία ϊτώι κύκνωιΐ: σννελθεϊν την δέ ώιον εκ της συνουσίας άποτεκείν. τούτο δέ έν τοις άλσεσιν ενρόντά τινα ποιμένα Αήδαι κομί-σαντα δούναι, την δέ καταθεμένην εις λάρνακα φυλάσ-

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father Zeus the son of Kronos, tormented by inhibition and misgiving: across land and the dark, barren water she ran, and Zeus pursued, eager to catch her; sometimes in the noisy sea's wave, where she had the form of a fish, as he stirred up the mighty deep; sometimes along Ocean's stream and the ends of the earth; sometimes on the loam-rich land; and she kept changing into all the fearsome creatures that the land nurtures, so as to escape him.

1 1 Philodemus, On Piety

And the author of the Cy[pria] says that Zeus pursued [Neme]sis after changing himself too into a goose, and when he had had union with her she laid an egg, from which Helen was born.

Apollodorus, The Library

But some say that Helen was the daughter of Nemesis and Zeus. For Nemesis, fleeing from intercourse with Zeus, changed her form into a goose, but Zeus too took the likeness of tthe swant and had congress with her, and as a result she laid an egg. A shepherd found this among the trees and brought it and gave it to Leda, who put it away in a chest and

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σειν rat χρόνωι γεννηθείσαν Έλένην ώς έζ αυτής θυγατέρα τρέφειν.

Cf. Sappho fr. 166; schol. Call. Hymn. 3.232; schol. Lyc. 88; ps.-Eratosth. Catast. 25.

1 2 * Schol. (D) II. 3.242

Ελένη . . . προτερον υπό Θησέως ήρπάσθη, καθώς προείρηται (ad 3.144, = Hellanicus fr. 168c Fowler), δια γαρ τήν τότε γενομένην άρτταγήν 'Αφιδνα πόλις Αττικής πορθεΐται, και τιτρώσκεται Κάστωρ ΰπό Αφίδνον τοΰ τότε βασιλέως κατά τον δεζιόν μηρόν. οί δε Διόσκουροι Θησέως μη τυχόντες λαφυραγωγοΰσιν τάς Αθήνας, ή ιστορία παρα |τοΐς πολεμωνίοιςΐ (ΤΙολέμωνι Fabricius) ή τοις κυκλικόΐς, και άπό μέρους παρά 'Αλκμάνι τώι λνρι-κώι (PMGF 21).

1 3 * Naevius(?), Cypria Ilias fr. 2 Courtney (ex libro I I )

pénétrât penitus thalamoque potitur.

1 4

ευαει τ άνέμωι λε'ιηι τε θαλάσσηι.

Herod. 2.116.6-117

έν τούτοισι τοίσι έπεσι (II. 6.289-292) δήλοι ("Ομηρος) ότι ήπίστατο τήν ες Α'ίγυπτον Αλεξάνδρου πλάνην όμονρεΐ γαρ ή Χυρίη Αίγνπτωι, οι δέ Φοίνικες, των έστι ή

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kept it; and when in time Helen was born from it, she raised her as her own daughter.

1 2 * Scholiast on the Iliad

Helen . . . was previously carried off by Theseus, as mentioned above. For it was because of that abduction that the Attic town of Aphidna was sacked, and Castor was wounded in the right thigh by Aphidnus, the king of the time. The Dioscuri, not finding Theseus, plundered Athens. The story is found in Polemon(?) or the Cyclic writers, and in part in Alcman the lyric poet.

1 3 * Naevius(?), The Cyprian Iliad, Book 2

He penetrated to the inner rooms and gained her bedroom.

14 Herodotus, History

a fair wind and a smooth sea

In these lines (Iliad 6.289-292) Homer shows that he knew of Alexander's diversion to Egypt, since Syria borders Egypt, and

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%ιδών, έν τηι %υρίηι οίκέουσι. κατά ταΰτα δέ τά έπεα και τάδε τ6 χωρίον ουκ ηκιστα άλλά μάλιστα δηλοΐ δτι ουκ Όμηρου τά Κύπρια επεά έστι άλλ' άλλον τινός- έν μέν yap τοίσι Κυπρίοισι είρηται ώς τριταίος έκ Χπάρτης Αλέξανδρος άπίκετο ές το "Ιλιον άγων 'Έ,λένην, εύαέί τε πνεύματι χρησάμενος και θαλάσσηι λείηι- έν δέ Ίλιάδι λέγει ώς έπλάζετο άγων αυτήν.

15 Paus. 3.16.1

πλησίον δέ Ίλαείρας και Φοίβης εστίν ιερόν ό δέ ποιήσας τά έπη τά Κύπρια θυγατέρας αύτάς Απόλλωνος ψησιν είναι.

1 6 Schol. Pind. Nem. 10.110, "άπο Ταϋγέτου πεδαυ-γάζων ϊδεν Αυγκενς δρνος έν στελέχει ημενος"

ό μέν Αρίσταρχος άζιοΐ γράφειν "ημενον," ακολούθως τηι έν τοις Κυπρίοις λεγομένηι ίστορίαι- ό γάρ τά Κύπρια συγγράφας φησι τον Κάστορα έν τηι δρνί κρυφθέντα όφθηναι υπό Αυγκέως. τηι δέ αύτηι γραφηι και Απολλόδωρος κατηκολούθησε (FGrHist 244 F 148). προς ούς φησι Αίδυμος . . . παρατίθεται δέ και τον τά Κύπρια γράφαντα ούτω λέγοντα-

αίφα δέ Ανγκενς Τηνγετον προσέβαινε ποσϊν ταχέεσσι πεποιθώς, ακρότατου δ' άναβάς διεδέρκετο νησον άπασαν Τανταλίδεω Πέλοπος· τάχα δ' εϊσιδε κύδιμος

ηρως

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the Phoenicians to whom Sidon belongs live in Syria. And not least in these lines and this passage, but especially in them, he makes plain that the Cypria is not by Homer but by someone else. For in the Cypria it is stated that Alexander arrived from Sparta at Ilion with Helen on the third day, having had a fair wind and a smooth sea, whereas in the Iliad he says that he went on a diversion with her.


Nearby is a shrine of Hilaeira and Phoibe. The author of the epic Cypria says they were daughters of Apollo.

1 6 Scholiast on Pindar, "gazing from Taygetus Lynceus saw (them) sitting in the trunk of an oak"

Aristarchus thinks one should write rjpevov [i.e. "saw him sitting"] , in accordance with the story told in the Cypria. For the writer of the Cypria says that Castor had hidden in the oak and was seen by Lynceus. Apollodorus too followed this reading. Against them Didymus says . . . And he quotes the author of Cypria as saying:

At once Lynceus climbed Taygetus, relying on his swift legs, and going up to the summit he surveyed the whole island of Pelops the Tantalid. 1 2 And with his formidable eyes

1 2 That is, the Peloponnese.

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5 δεινοΐς όφθαλμοϊσιν έσω κοίλης δρυός άμφω, Κάστορα θ' Ίππόδαμον καί άεθλοφόρον

ΥΙολνδενκεα. νύξε δ' άρ' άγχι στά<ς> μεγάλην δρνν <δβριμος

"Ιδας>

και τά εξής.

5 δρυός άμφω κοίλης codd.: eorr. Gerhard 7 δβριμος "Ιδας e.g. suppl. West.


Κάστο[ρα δ]έ νπό "\δα τον ['Αφα]ρέως κατη[κοντ]ίσθαι γέγραφεν ό [τά Κύπρια] ποήσα[ς καί Φερεκν]δης δ Ά[θηναΐος (fir. 127Α Fowler).

1 8 Ath. 35c

οίνόν τοι, Μενέλαε, θεοί ποίησαν άριστον θνητοΐς άνθρώποισιν άποσκεδάσαι μελεδώνας-

δ των Κνπρίων τούτο φησι ποιητής, όστις αν ε'ίη.

1 9 Schol. (D) II. 19.326

Αλεξάνδρου 'Έλένην άρπάσαντος Αγαμέμνων καί Μενέλαος τούς "Ελλτ/νας κατά Ύρώων έστρατολόγησαν. Πηλεύς δέ προγινώσκων ότι μοιριδιον ήν εν Ύροίαι θανεΐν Αχιλλέα, παραγενόμενος εις Χκνρον προς Ανκο-μήδην τον βασιλέα παρέθετα τον Αχιλλέα, καί γυναι-

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the glorious hero soon spotted them both inside a hollow oak, Castor the horse-tamer and prize-winner Polydeuces. And <doughty Idas> stood up close and stabbed the great oak,

and so on.


That Castor was speared by Idas the son of [Aphajreus has been written by the author of [the Cypria and Pherecyjdes of Afthens.


"Wine, Menelaus, is the best thing the gods have made for mortal men for dispelling cares."

The poet of the Cypria says so, whoever he may be. 1 3


When Alexander stole Helen, Agamemnon and Menelaus recruited the Greeks against the Trojans. Peleus, knowing in advance that it was fated that Achilles should die at Troy, went to Scyros, to king Lyeomedes, and placed Achilles in his care,

13 The lines were perhaps spoken by Nestor when Menelaus went and told him of Helen's disappearance.

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κείαν εσθήτα άμφιέσας ώς κόρην μετά τών θυγατέρων άνέτρεφεν. χρησμού δε δοθέντος μη άλώσεσθαι την "ΐΚιον χωρίς Άχιλλέως, πεμφθέντες νφ' Ελλήνων Όδνσ-σεύς τε και Φοίνιζ και Νέστωρ, ΙΙηλέως άρνουμένον παρ' αύτώι τον παΐδα τυγχάνειν, πορευθέντες εις ^.κνρον και ύπονοήσαντες μετά τών παρθένων τον Αχιλλέα τρέφε-σθαι, ταϊς Οδυσσέως νποθήκαις δπλα και ταλάρονς έρριψαν συν Ίστουργικοΐς έργαλείοις έμπροσθεν τον παρθενώνος. αί μέν ονν κόραι έπι τους ταλάρονς ώρμησαν και τα λοιπά, Αχιλλενς δε άνελόμενος τα όπλα κατάφωρος έγένετο- και συνεστρατεύσατο. πρότερον δε ταις παρθένοις σννδιατρ'ιβων έφθειρε Δήίδάμειαν την Ανκομήδονς, ήτις έξ αυτόν εγέννησε ΤΙύρρον τον ύστερον Νεοπτόλεμον κληθέντα- όστις τοις "Ελλησι νέος ων σνν-εστρατεύσατο μετά θάνατον τον πατρός, ή Ιστορία παρά τοις κυκλικοΐς.

Paus. 10.26.4

τά δέ Κύπρια έπη φησιν υπό Αυκομήδους μέν ΤΙύρρον, Νεοπτόλεμου δέ όνομα ΰπό Φοίνικος αύτώι τεθήναι, ότι Αχιλλευς ηλικίαι έτι νέος πολεμείν ήρζατο.

Cf. schol. (Τ) //. 9.668b.

2 0 Schol. Soph. El. 157, "οία Χ,ρνσόθεμις ζώει και Ίφι-

άνασσα"

ή Όμηρωι ακολουθεί είρηκότι τάς τρεις θυγατέρας του Αγαμέμνονος ill. 9.144) ή, ώς ό τά Κύπρια, δ φησιν,

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and he dressed him in female clothing and brought him up as a girl with his daughters. But as an oracle had been issued that Ilion would not be captured without Achilles, the Greeks sent Odysseus, Phoenix, and Nestor, and when Peleus denied that his son was with him, they travelled to Scyros. Suspecting that Achilles was being raised among the girls, at Odysseus' suggestion they scattered some weapons, together with work baskets and weaving implements, in front of the girls' chamber. The girls made for the baskets and the other things, but Achilles took up the weapons, and so was caught out, and he joined the expedition. But before that, while he was living with the girls, he had seduced Lycomedes' daughter Dei-damea, and by him she gave birth to Pyrrhus, who was later named Neoptolemus; he went to fight with the Greeks as a young man after his father's death. The story is found in the Cyclic writers.


The epic Cypria says that he was given the name of Pyrrhus by Lycomedes, but that of Neoptolemus by Phoenix, because Achilles was still young (neos) when he began to make war (polemein).

2 0 Scholiast on Sophocles, Electra, "as Chrysothemis fives, and Iphianassa"

Alternatively he is following Homer, who named Agamemnon's three daughters, or, like the author of the Cypria, he is

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Ίφιγένειαν και Ίφιάνασο-αν.

2 1 * Chrysippus, SVTii.57.11

ει Αγαμέμνων ούτως άπέφασκεν

ουκ έφάμην 'Αχιλήϊ χολωσ-έμεν άλκιμον ήτορ

ώδε μάλ' εκπάγλως, έπεί ή μάλα μοι φίλος τ/ην,

άζίωμά έστιν κτλ.

2 2 Paus. 4.2.7

ό δέ τα έπη ποιήο-ας τα Κυπριά Πρωτεσίλαου φησ'ιν, δς δτε κατά την Ύρωιάδα έσχον Έλληνες άποβήναι πρώτος έτόλμησε, Πρωτεσίλαου τούτον την γυναίκα Πολυδώραν μέν το δνομα, θυγατέρα δέ Μελεάγρου φησίν είναι τού Οίνέως.

2 3 Schol. (Τ) Ii. 16.57b, "πάλιν εντείχεα πέρσας"

την Τίήδασον οί τών Κυπρίων ποιηταί, αύτδς δέ Λυρ-νησσάν (II. 2.690).

2 4 Schol. (bT) II. 1.366c

εις Θήβας δέ ήκουσα ή Χρυσηίς ττρός Ίφινόην τήν Ήετίωνος άδελφήν, "Ακτορος δέ θυγατέρα, θύουσαν 'Αρ-τέμιδι, ήλω ύπο Άχιλλε'ως.

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saying there were four, Iphigeneia as well as Iphianassa.

2 1 * Chrysippus, On Negation

I f Agamemnon made this negative statement:

I did not think I would anger Achilles' brave heart so very greatly, as he was my good friend,

there is a positive proposition, etc.


The author of the epic Cypria says about Protesilaus, who was the first to venture to disembark when the Greeks put in at the Troad, that this Protesilaus' wife was named Polydora, and he says she was a daughter of Meleager the son of Oineus.

2 3 Scholiast on the Iliad, "when I sacked her well-walled t o w n " 1 5

The poets of the Cypria say it was Pedasus, but Homer himself says Lyrnessus.


When Chryseis came to Thebes to Iphinoe, the sister of Eetion and daughter of Actor, who was sacrificing to Artemis, she was captured by Achilles.

1 4 That is, in addition to Chrysothemis and Electra. 1 5 The reference is to Rriseis.

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Eust. II. 119.4

Ίστορούσι δέ τίνες ότι εκ τών 'Ύποπλακίων Θηβών ή Χρυσηις ελήφθη, ούτε καταφυγούσα έκεϊ ούτ έπϊ θυσίαν Αρτέμιδος ελθοΰσα, ώς ό τα Κυπριά γράφας έφη, άλλα πολΐτις ήτοι συμπολϊτις Ανδρομάχης ούσα.

2 5 * Schol. (A) II. 24.257b (Aristonici)

ότι έκ τον είρήσθαι Ίππιοχάρμην τον Ύρω'ιλον ο'ι νεώτεροι έφ' ίππου διωκόμενον αυτόν εποίησαν, και οΐ μεν παΐδα αυτόν νποτίθενται, "Ομηρος δε δια τον έπιθέτον τέλειον άνδρα εμφαίνει- ου γαρ άλλος Ίππόμαχος λέγεται.

2 6

Οίνώ τε %περμώ τε και <άγλαόκαρπος> Έλαιις.

Schol. Lyc. 570

τούτον δε ("Ανιόν) Απόλλων ήνεγκεν εις Δήλον. ος γήμας Αωρίππην έγέννησε τάς Οινοτρόπονς, Οίνώ, Χπερμώ, Έλαΐδα, alç ό Διόνυσος ίχαρίσατο, όπότ£ βονλονται σπέρμα λαμβάνειν. Φερεκύδης δέ φησιν (fr. 140 Fowler) ότι "Avioç έπεισε τους "Ελληνας παραγενομένονς προς αυτόν αυτού μενειν τα θ' έτη- δεδόσθαι δέ αύτοΊ,ς παρά τών θεών τώι δεκάτωι έτει πορθήσαι την "Ιλιον ύπέσχετο δέ αύτοίς ύπό τών θυγατέρων αυτού τραφήσεσθαι. έστι δέ τούτο και παρά τώι τα Κυπριά πίποιτ/κότι. μέμνηται

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Eustathius, commentary on the Iliad

But some relate that Chryseis was taken from Hypoplacian Thebes, not having taken refuge there or gone for a sacrifice to Artemis, as the writer of the Cypria said, but being a fellow-citizen of Andromache.

2 5 * Scholiast on the Iliad (Aristonicus)

(The critical sign is) because, from Troilus' being called a "cavalry warrior," the post-Homeric writers have represented him as being pursued on horseback. And they take him to be a boy, whereas Homer indicates by the epithet that he was a grown man, for no one else is called a cavalry warrior.

2 6

Oino, Spermo, and Elaiis <of splendid fruit> . 1 6

Scholiast on Lycophron Apollo brought Anios to Delos. He married Dorippe, and fathered the Oinotropoi, Oino, Spermo, and Elaiis, to whom Dionysus granted the boon of becoming fertile at will . Pherecydes says that Anios persuaded the Greeks when they visited him to stay there for the nine years, it having been granted to them by the gods to sack Ilion in the tenth year; and he promised them that they would be fed by his daughters. This is also in the author of the Cypria. Callimachus too men-

16 Reconstructed verse.

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δε και Καλλίμαχος των Άνίον θυγατέρων έν τοις Αίτίοις (fr. 188 Pf.).

Cf. ib. 580 ανται και τους "Έλληνας λιμώττοντας έλ-θούσαι εις Ύροίαν διέσωσαν μαρτυρεί δε ταΰτα και Καλλίμαχος; 581 Αγαμέμνων γαρ τών 'Έ,λλήνων λιμώι συνεχόμενων μετεπέμφατο αύτάς δια του ΪΙαλαμήδους, και έλθονσαι εις το 'ΐοίτειον έτρεφαν αυτούς; Simon. PMG 537; Apollod. epit. 3.15; Dictys 1.23.

2 7 Paus. 10.31.2

ΤΙαλαμήδην δε άποπνιγήναι προελθόντα επί ιχθύων θή-ραν, Αιομήδην δέ τον άποκτείναντα είναι και Όδυσσέα, έπιλεζάμενος έν έπεσιν οίδα τοις Κνπρίοις.

2 8 Paus. 10.26.1

Αέσχεως δέ (Ii. Parva 19) και έπη τά Κύπρια διδόασιν Έ,ύρυδίκην γυναίκα Αίνείαι.

2 9 Plat. Euthyphro 12a

λέγω γαρ δη το εναντίον ή 6 ποιητής έποίησεν ό ποιήσας-

Ζήνα δέ τόν τ έρζαντα και δς τάδε πάντ'

έφύτευσεν

ούκ έθέλει νεικεϊν ίνα γαρ δέος, ένθα και αιδώς.

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tions Anios' daughters in his Aetia. They also went to Troy and saved the Greeks when they were suffering from famine. Callimachus too attests this. For when the Greeks were in the grip of famine, Agamemnon sent for them by Palamedes, and they came to Rhoiteion and kept them fed.


That Palamedes was drowned on a fishing expedition, and that Diomedes was the one who killed him with Odysseus, I know from reading it in the epic Cypria.


Lescheos and the epic Cypria give Aeneas Eurydice as wife.

2 9 Plato, Euthyphron

For I say the contrary of the poet who wrote

"But as for Zeus, the agent responsible, who sowed the seeds of all this, he (she?) is unwilling to criticize him; for where there is fear, there is inhibition."

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Schol. ad loc. εΐρηται δε έκ των Έ,τασ'ινον Κυπρίων; item Stob. 3.31.12; cf. Mantiss. proverb. 1.71. 2 ινα - αιδώς Iaudant etiam Plut. Agis et Cleom. 30.6, Mor. 459d; Diogenian. 5.30; Apostol. 9.6.

2 έθέλει νεικείν Bumet ex schol.: έθέλειν vel -εις άπαν codd., Stob., Mantissa.

3 0 Herodian. περί μονήρους λέξεως 9 (ii.914.15 L.)

και (%αρπτηδών) ή νήσος ιδίως έν 'Ω,κεανώι Γοργόνων οίκητήριον ούσα, ώς ό τά Κυπριά φησι·

τώι δ' ύποκυσαμένη τέκε Γοργόνας, αίνά πέλωρα,

αι %αρπ·ηδόνα ναιον έπ' 'Ω,κεανώι βαθυδίνηι

νήσον πετρήεσσαν.

1 αίνά Dindorf: δεινά cod. 2 αΐ Heinrichsen: και cod.

3 1 Clem. Strom. 6.19.1

πάλιν %τασίνου ποιήσαντος

νήπιος, ος πατέρα κτείνας παΐδας καταλείπει,

3ενοφών λέγει κτλ.

Versum Iaudant etiam Arist. Rhet. 1376a6 (v.l. υιούς), 1395al6 (v.l. κτείνων); Polyb. 23.10.10 (vious).

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Scholiast: It is a quotation from Stasinus' Cypria.

3 0 Herodian, On Peculiar Words

And Sarpedon in the special sense of the island in Oceanus, where the Gorgons live, as the author of the Cypria says:

And she conceived and bore him the Gorgons, dread creatures, who dwelt on Sarpedon on the deep-swirling Oceanus, a rocky island.

3 1 Clement of Alexandria, Miscellanies

Again, where Stasinus had written

He is a fool who kills the father and spares the sons,

Xenophon says, etc.

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T E S T I M O N I A

IG 14.1284 i 10 = Tabula Iliaca A (Capitolina) p. 29 Sadurska

Αίθιοπις κατα Αρκτϊνον τον ΜιλησιοΐΛ

Hesychius Milesius, Vita Homeri 6

αναφέρεται δε εις αντον και άλλα τινά ποιήματα-Άμαζονία, Ιλιας Μικρά, κτλ.

Clem. Strom. 1.131.6

Φανίας δέ (fr. 33 Wehrli) προ Τερπάνδρου τιθεις Αέσχην τον Αεσβιον Αρχιλόχου νεώτερου φέρει τον Τέρπανδρον, διημιλλήσθαι δέ τον Αέσχην Άρκτίνωι και νενικηκέναι.

Euseb. Chron.

Ol. 1.2: Arctinus Milesius uersificator florentissimus habetur.

Ol. 5.1: Eumelus poeta . . . et Arctinus qui Aethiopidam conposuit et I l i i Persin agnoscitur.

Cf. Cyrill. Contra Mian. 1.12 (Patrol. Gr. lxxvi. 520D).

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AETHIOPIS

T E S T I M O N I A

Capitoline plaque

The Aethiopis according to Arctinus of Miletus.

Hesychius of Miletus, Life of Homer

Certain other poems are also attributed to him: the Amazonia, the Little Iliad, etc.

Clement of Alexandria, Miscellanies

Phanias17 places Lesches of Lesbos before Terpander, makes Terpander younger than Archilochus, and says that Lesches had a contest with Arctinus and was victorious.

Eusebius, Chronicle

01. 1.2 (775/774): Arctinus the Milesian poet is reckoned at his peak.

Ol. 5.1 (760/759): the poet Eumelus . . . is recognized, and Arctinus who composed the Aethiopis and Sack of Ilion.

1 7 The Peripatetic Phanias or Phaenias of Eresos.

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Suda α 3960

Αρκτΐνος Τήλεω τού Ναντεω άπογόνον, Μιλήσιος, έποποιός, μαθητής Όμήρον, ώς λέγει. 6 Κ-λαζομένιος Άρτέμων έν τώι περί Όμήρον (FGrHist 443 F 2), γεγονώς κατά τήν θ' Όλυμπιάδα, μετά υι έτη τών Τρωικών.

A R G U M E N T U M

Proclus, Chrestomaihia, suppleta ex Apollod. epit. 5.1-6

επιβάλλει δέ τοις προειρημένοις [εν τήι προ ταύτης βίβλωι} Ίλιάς Όμήρον μεθ' ην έστιν Αίθιοπ'ιδος βιβλία πέντε Αρκτίνον Μιλησίον περιέχοντα τάδε·

(1) \μαζών ίίενθεσίλεια παραγίνεται Τρωσί σνμ-μαχήο-ονσ-α, "Αρεως μεν θνγάτηρ, ®ράισσα δέ το γένος, <άκονσίως Ίππολντην κτείνασα και υπό Πριάμου καθαρθεϊσα. μάχης γενομένης πολλούς κτείνει, έν ο'ις και Μαχαονα. Αρ.> και κτείνει αντην άριστευ-ονσαν 'Αχιλλενς, ο'ι δέ Τρώες αυτήν θάπτονσι. και 'Αχιλλεύς ®ερσίτην αναιρεί λοιδορηθείς προς αυτού και όνειδιιτθείς τον έπί τήι ΤΙενθεσ-ιλείαι λεγόμενον έρωτα, και εκ τούτου στασις γίνεται τοις 'Αχαιοϊς περί τού θερσίτου φόνου, μετά δέ ταύτα Αχιλλεύς εις Αέσ-βον πλεΐ, και θύσας 'Απόλλωνι και 'ΑρτέμιΒι και Αητοΐ καθαίρεται τού φόνου ύπ' Όδνσσέως.

(2) Μέμνων δε ό <Τιθωνού και Αρ.> Ήούς υίός έχων ήφαιστότευκτον πανοπλίαν <μετά πολλής Αιθιόπων

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The Suda (from Hesychius of Miletus, Index of Famous Authors)

Arctinus, son of Teleas the descendant of Nautes, Milesian, epic poet, a pupil of Homer, as Artemon of Clazomenae says in his work On Homer; flourished about the ninth Olympiad (744/741), 410 years after the Trojan War.

A R G U M E N T

Proclus, Chrestomathy, with additions and variants from Apollodorus, The Library

The aforesaid material 1 8 is followed by Homer s Iliad, after which are the five books of the Aethiopis of Arctinus of Miletus, with the following content:

(1) The Amazon Penthesilea arrives to fight with the Trojans, a daughter of the War god, of Thracian stock. <She had involuntarily killed Hippolyta, and was purified by Priam. When a battle was fought she killed large numbers, including Machaon.> She dominates the battlefield, but Achilles kills her and the Trojans bury her. And Achilles kills Thersites after being abused by him and insulted over his alleged love for Penthesilea. This results in a dispute among the Achaeans about the killing of Thersites. Achilles then sails to Lesbos, and after sacrificing to Apollo, Artemis, and Leto, he is purified from the killing by Odysseus.

(2) Memnon, the son of <Tithonus and> the Dawn, wearing armor made by Hephaestus <and accompanied by

l g The contents of the Cypria.

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TevKpoç TÔÇOII. TTJV Sè 'AîXXewc navoirkiav Tidélo-t,

Tun àpicrTcùi viK7]T7)piov. Ap.> Kat 7rept TOV 'AxtXXe'ûtç

ôVXcov 'OSvcrcret Kat AtavTt orâo - tç èpTrlinei.

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a large force of Ethiopians.), arrives to assist the Trojans. Thetis prophesies to her son about the encounter with Memnon. When battle is joined, Antilochus is killed by Memnon, but then Achilles kills Memnon. And Dawn confers immortality upon him after prevailing on Zeus.

(3) Achilles puts the Trojans to flight and chases them into the city, but is killed by Paris and Apollo. <At the Scaean Gates he is shot by Alexander and Apollo in the ankle. > A fierce battle develops over his body, in which Ajax <kills Glaucus. He hands over Achilles' armor to be taken to the ships; as for the body, he> takes it up and carries it towards the ships, with Odysseus fighting the Trojans off.

(4) Then they bury Antilochus, and lay out the body of Achilles. Thetis comes with the Muses and her sisters, and laments her son. 1 9 And presently Thetis snatches her son from the pyre and conveys him to the White Island. 2 0

When the Achaeans have raised the grave mound, they organize an athletic contest, <in which Eumelus wins in the chariot race, Diomedes in the sprint, Ajax in the discus, Teucer in the archery. They offer Achilles' armor as the prize for the outstanding hero.> And a quarrel arises between Odysseus and Ajax over the arms of Achilles.

1 9 Thetis' sisters are the Nereids. Achilles had probably been lamented also by Briseis (like Patroclus in Iliad 19.282-302); see Propertius 2.9.9-14.

20 In the Black Sea opposite the mouth of the Danube, the modern Ostrov Zmeinyy.

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1 Schol. (T) II. 24.804a

τίνες γράφονσιν

ώς oï y άμφίεπον τάφον "Έ,κτορος- ήλθε δ' 'Αμαζών,

"Αρηος θυγάτηρ μεγαλήτορος άνδροφόνοιο.

2 Ότρήρ[η]<ς> θνγάτηρ ενειδής Ι1ενθεσελ<ε>ια P. Lit. Lond. 6 xxii 43.

2 P.Oxy. 1611 fr. 4 i i 145

['Viç πόθεν εις] συ, γνναι; τίνος εκγον[ος] ενχ[ε]αι είναι;"

και τ[ά ε]ζής, καί ως εκτίθετ[αι Άρκτΐ]νος όλον αντή[ς τον] θάνατον.

3 Schol. (A, Aristonici) II. 17.719

οτι εντεύθεν τοις νεωτεροις 6 βασταζόμενος Αχιλλεύς νπ' Αΐαντος, υπερασπίζων δε Όδνσσενς παρήκται. ει δέ Όμηρος έγραφε τον Αχιλλεως θάνατον, ούκ αν εποίησε τον νεκρόν ΰπ' Αΐαντος βασταζόμενον, ώς οί νεώτεροι.

Cf. schol. Od. 11.547.

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F R A G M E N T S

1 Scholiast on the last line of the Iliad

Some write:

So they busied themselves with Hector's funeral. And an Amazon came,

a daughter of Ares the great-hearted, the slayer of men. 2 1

2 Oxyrhynchus papyrus 2 2

["Who and whence are] you, lady? Whose child do you claim to be?"

and what follows, and how [Arcti]nus relates her whole death.

3 Scholiast on the Iliad (Aristonicus)

(The critical sign is) because from this passage [Iliad 17.719] post-Homeric writers have derived Achilles being carried by Ajax with Odysseus defending him. But if Homer had been describing the death of Achilles, he would not have had the body carried by Ajax, as the later writers do.

2 1 A papyrus source gives the variant "and an Amazon came, the daughter of Otrera, the fair Penthesilea." The lines are not properly part of the Aethiopis, but were devised to make the Iliad lead on to it.

2 2 The text is a scholarly commentary or the like; the author and context are unknown. The verse quoted was probably spoken to Penthesilea by Priam or Achilles.

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4* Schol. (D) II. 23.660

Φόρβας άνδρειότατος των καθ' εαυτόν γενόμενος, υπερήφανος δε, πνγμήν ήσκησεν, καϊ τους μεν παριόντας άναγκάζων άγωνίζεσθαι άνήιρει- υπό δε της πολλής ύπερηφανίας ήβονλετο καϊ προς τους θεούς τό τοιούτο φρόνημα 'εχειν. διό Απόλλων παραγενόμενος καϊ σνστάς αύτώι άπεκτεινεν αυτόν, όθεν εζ εκείνον καϊ της πνκτικής έφορος ενομίσθη ό θεός. ή ιστορία παρά τοις κυκλικοΐς.

5 Diomedes, Gramm, hat. i.477.9

Alii a Marte ortum Iambura strenuum ducem tradunt, qui cum crebriter pugnas iniret et telum cum clamore torqueret, από τού ίεϊν καϊ βοάν Iambus appellatur. Idcirco ex breui et longa pedem hune esse compositum, quod hi qui iaculentur ex breui accessu in extensum passum proferuntur, ut promp-tiore nisu telis ictum confirment. Auctor huius librationis Arctinus Graecus his uersibus perhibetur: {ό "Ιαμβος)

εζ ολίγον διαβας προφόρωι ποδί, γυΐά οι όφρα τεινόμενα ρώοιτο καϊ εύσθενες είδος εχησιν.

1 γνΐά οί οφρα West: ofra oi gya vel gria codd.

6 Schol. Pind. Isth. 4.58b

ό γαρ τήν Κίθιοπίδα γράφων περί τον όρθρον φησϊ τον Α'ίαντα έαντόν άνελεϊν.

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4 * Scholiast on the Iliad

Phorbas, the manliest man of his time, but an arrogant one, practised boxing, and he used to force passersby to compete with him and then destroy them. In his great arrogance he was prepared to take this attitude even towards the gods. So Apollo came and squared up to him, and killed him. Hence after that the god was recognized as the patron of boxing. The story is in the Cyclic poets.23

5 Diomedes, The Art of Grammar

Others relate that Iambus was a son of Mars, a vigorous chieftain, who because he constantly went into battle and hurled [Greek hiein] his spear with a shout [Greek boan] was named "Iambus"; and that the iambic foot is made up of a short and a long because those throwing a javelin take a short step forward and then a long stride, to put their weight into the shot and give it greater force. The authority for this throwing method is said to be the Greek Arctinus in these verses;

With legs slightly apart and one foot forward, so that his limbs should move vigorously at full stretch and have a good appearance of strength. 2 4

6 Scholiast on Pindar

For the author of the Aethiopis says that Ajax killed himself towards dawn.

2 3 The boxing match in the funeral games for Achilles is a possible context.

2 4 The verses suggest not a man throwing a spear but one getting set for a foot race, or perhaps for wrestling. The original context may therefore have been the funeral games for Achilles.

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Ι Λ Ι Α 2 Μ Ι Κ Ρ Α

T E S T I M O N I A

Arist. Poet. 1459a37

oi δ' άλλοι περι ίνα ποιοΰσι και περι ίνα χρόνον και μίαν πράζιν πολυμερή, οίον ό τα Κύπρια ποιήσας και την Μικράν Ίλιάδα. τοιγαροϋν έκ pèv Ίλιάδος και Όδυσσείας μία τραγωιδία ποιείται έκατέρας, ή δυο μόναι, έκ δε Κυπρίων πολλαϊ και της Μικράς Ίλιάδος πλέον οκτώ, οίον "Οπλων κρίσις, Φιλοκτήτης, Νεοπτόλεμος, Εύρνπυλος, Πτώχεια, Αάκαιναι, Ιλίου πέρ-σις, και Απόπλους και %ίνων και Τρωιάδες.

Poculum Homericum M B 31 (cf. 32) (p. 97 Sinn)

κατά ποιητήν Αέσχην έκ της Μικράς Ίλιάδος· έν τώ(ι) Ίλίω(ι) oi σνμ(μ)α[χοι\ μείζαντες προς τους Αχαιούς μάχην.

IG 14.1284 i 10 = Tabula Iliaca A (Capitolina) p. 29 Sadurska

Ίλιάς ή Μικρά λεγομένη κατά Αέσχην ΥΙυρραΐον.

Εύρνπυλος, Νεοπτόλεμος, Οδυσσεύς, Διομήδης, Παλ(λ)άς, δονρηος 'ίππος. Τρωάδες και Φρύγες άνά·γονσι τον ιππον. Πρίαμος, ^,Ίνων, Κασσάνδρα, Σκαιά 7 τ ύ λ η .

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THE LITTLE ILIAD

T E S T I M O N I A

Aristotle, Poetics

But the others 2 5 tell the story of one person or one time or one action made up of many parts, like the author of the Cypria and the Little Iliad. Hence with the Iliad and Odyssey a single tragedy can be made from each, or no more than two, whereas from the Cypria many can be made, and from the Little Iliad more than eight, for example The Award of the Armor, Philoctetes, Neoptolemus, Eurypylus, The Beggar's Expedition, The Laconian Women, The Sack of llion, and The Sailing Away and Sinon and Trojan Women.26

Caption to vase relief (third-second century B C )

After the poet Lesches, from the Little Iliad: the allies at l l ion joining battle with the Achaeans.

Capitoline plaque

The Iliad known as Little, after Lesches of Pyrrha.

Eurypylus, Neoptolemus, Odysseus, Diomedes, Pallas, the wooden horse. Trojan women and Phrygians are taking the horse up. Priam, Sinon, Cassandra, the Scaean Gate.

2 5 The poets other than Homer. 2 6 Some regard the list of titles as interpolated. Most of them,

perhaps all, are taken from actual tragedies. Sophocles' Laconian Women dealt with the theft of the Palladion.

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Cf. Tabulam Iliacam Ti (Thierry) p. 52 Sadurska Ίλιάς Μεικρά κα[τά Αέσχην ΐίνρραΐον.

Clem. Strom. 1.131.6, v. supra ad Aethiopidem.

Euseb. Chron.

Ol. 30.3: Alcmeon clarus habetur et Lesches Lesbius qui Paruam fecit Iliadem.


αναφέρεται δε εις αυτόν και άλλα τινά ποιήματα· Άμαζονία, Ίλιάς Μικρά, κτλ.

A R G U M E N T U M


έξης δ' εστίν Ίλιάδος Μικρός βιβλία τέσσαρα Αέσχεω Μυτιληναίου περιέχοντα τάδε-

(1) ή των οπλών κρίσις γίνεται και Όδυσσεύς κατά βούλησιν Αθηνά·; λαμβάνει. Αίας δ' εμμανής γενόμενος την τε λείαν των Αχαιών λυμαίνεται και εαυτόν αναιρεί. <'Α-γαμέμνων δε κωλύει το σώμα αντον καή-ναι- και μόνος ούτος των εν Ίλίωι αποθανόντων εν σορώι κείται, ό δε τάφος εστίν έν 'Ροιτείωι. Αρ.>

(2) μετά ταύτα Όδυσο-εύς λοχήσας "Έ,λενον λαμβάνει, και χρήσαντος περϊ της αλώσεως τούτου Διομήδης <"Οδυσσεύς μετά Διομηδους Αρ.> έκ Αήμνου Φιλοκτήτην ανάγει, ίαθεϊς δέ ούτος υπό Μαχάονος και

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Clement of Alexandria, Miscelhnies: see above on the Aethiopis.

Eusebius, Chronicle

Ol. 30.3 (658/657): Alcman is famous, and Lesches of Lesbos who composed the Little Iliad.


Certain other poems are also attributed to him: the Amazonia, the Little Iliad, etc.

A R G U M E N T


Next are the four books of the Little Iliad by Lesches of Mytilene, with the following content:

(1) The awarding of the armor takes place, and Odysseus gets i t in accord with Athena's wishes. Ajax goes insane, savages the Achaeans' plundered livestock, and kills himself. < Agamemnon prevents his body being cremated; he is the only one of those who died at Ilion to lie in a coffin. His tomb is at Rhoiteion.>

(2) After this Odysseus ambushes Helenus and captures him. Following a prophecy he makes about the taking of the city, < Odysseus with> Diomedes brings Philoctetes back from Lemnos. 2 7 He is healed by

2 7 The prophecy was that the city could only be taken with Heracles' bow, which was in Philoctetes' possession.

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μονομάχησα·; Άλεζάνδρωι κτείνει- και τον νεκρόν νπό Μενελάου καταικισθέντα άνελόμενοι θάπτονσιν οι Τρώες, μετά δέ ταύτα Αη'ιφοβος 'Έλένην γαμει.

(3) και Νεοπτόλεμον Όδνσσεύς εκ Χ,κνρον άγαγών τά όπλα δίδωσι τά τον πατρός- και ΆχιΧΧενς αντώι φαντάζεται. Εύρύττυλος δε ό Ύηλέφον έπίκονρος τοις Τρωσι παραγίνεται <πολλήν Μνσών δύναμιν άγων Αρ.>, και άριστενοντα αυτόν άποκτείνει Νεοπτόλεμος, και οί Τρώες πολιορκούνται.

(4) και Έπειός κατ Αθηνάς προαίρεσιν <άπό της "ΐδης ζίιλα τεμών Αρ.> τον δονρειον ϊππον κατασκευάζει. Όδνσσενς τε άικισάμενος έαντόν <καί πενιχράν στολήν ένδνς Αρ.> κατάσκοπος εις "ϊλιον παραγίνεται- και αναγνωρισθείς υφ Ελένης περί της αλώσεως της πόλεως συντίθεται, κτείνας τέ τινας τών Τρωών έπι τας νανς άφικνεϊται. και μετα ταύτα συν Αιομήδει τό Παλλάδιον εκκομίζει εκ της Ιλίου.

(5) έπειτα εις τον δονρειον ϊππον τούς αρίστους έμβιβάσαντες, τάς τε σκηνάς καταφλέζαντες οί λοιποί τών Ελλήνων <καί καταλιπόντες Χίνωνα, ός έμελλεν αντοΐς πυρσον άναπτειν, της νυκτός Αρ.> εις Τένεδον ανάγονται, οί δε Τρώες τών κακών ΰπο-λαβόντες άπηλλάχθαι τόν τε δονρειον ϊππον εις τήν

2 8 According to Apollodorus' narrative Machaon had been killed by Pendiesilea, and it was Podalirius who healed Philoctetes.

2 9 Compare the scholiast on Odyssey 8.517, "and it is this pas-

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Machaon, 2 8 and fights alone against Alexander and kills him. His body is mutilated by Menelaus, but then the Trojans recover it and give it burial. After this Deiphobus marries Helen. 2 9

(3) And Odysseus30 fetches Neoptolemus from Scyros and gives him his father's armor; and Achilles appears to him. Eurypylus the son of Telephus arrives to help the Trojans, <bringing a large force of Mysians,> and dominates the battlefield, but Neoptolemus kills him. The Trojans are penned in the city.

(4) Epeios, following an initiative of Athena's, <fells timber from Ida> and constructs the wooden horse. Odysseus disfigures himself <and puts on pauper's clothes > and enters Ilion to reconnoitre. He is recognized by Helen, and comes to an agreement with her about the taking of the city. After killing some Trojans, he gets back to the ships. After this he brings the Palladion 3 1 out of Ilios with Diomedes.

(5) Then they put the leading heroes into the wooden horse. The rest of the Greeks burn their huts and <leaving Sinon behind, who was to light a torch signal for them, in the night> they withdraw to Tenedos. The Trojans, believing themselves rid of their troubles, take the wooden horse

sage that led the later writers to say that Helen also married Deiphobus."

30 Accompanied by Phoenix, according to Apollodorus. 31 The statue of Pallas Athena, on which Troy's safety de

pended. According to Apollodorus and the first-century papyrus Rylands 22, it was Helenus again who revealed this secret. The papyrus narrative puts the theft of the Palladion before the fetching of Neoptolemus from Scyros.

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πάλιν είσδέχονται SieXoVreç μέρος τι τον τείχους, και

ενωχοΰνται ώς νενικηκότες τούς "Ελληνας.

3 ^ cf. P. Rylands 22 (saec. i).

F R A G M E N T A

1 Ps.-Herod. Vita Homeri 16

διατριβών δέ παρά τώι θεστορίδηι ποιεί Ίλιάδα την έλάσσω, ής ή άρχή-

Ίλιον άείδω και Δαρδανίην ενπωλον,

ής περι πόλλα πάθον Δαναοί θεράποντες 'Αρηος.

Versus ex parte exhibent testae duae in regione Pontica repertae, saec. v a . C : Jurij G . Vinogradov, Pontische Studien (Mainz, 1997), 385, 419.

2 Schol. Ar. Eq. 1056a

διεφέροντο περι τών αριστείων δ τε Αίας και δ "Οδυσσεύς, ώς φησιν è την Μικράν Ίλιάδα πεποιηκώς- τον Νέστορα δε συμβουλεύσαι τοις Έλλησι πέμφαι τινάς έζ αυτών ΰπδ τά τείχη τών Ύρώων ώτακουστήσοντας περί της ανδρείας τών προειρημένων ηρώων, τούς δε πεμφθέν-τας άκοΰσαι παρθένων διαφερομένων προς άλλήλας, ών την μεν λέγειν ώς ό Αίας πολύ κρείττων έστϊ τού Όδυσ-σέως, διερχομένην ούτως·

Αίας μεν γαρ άειρε και έκφερε δηϊοτήτος

ηρω Πηλίίδην, ούδ' ήθελε δίος Όδυσσενς.

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into the city by breaching a portion of the wall, and start celebrating their supposed victory over the Greeks.

F R A G M E N T S

1 Pseudo-Herodotus, Life of Homer

While staying with Thestorides he composed the Lesser Iliad, which begins

Of Ilios I sing, and Dardania land of fine colts, over which the Danaans suffered much, servants of the War god.

2 Scholiast on Aristophanes, Knights

There was a dispute over the prize for valor3 2 between Ajax and Odysseus, as the author of the Little Iliad says, and Nestor advised the Greeks to send some men to below the Trojans' wall to eavesdrop concerning the bravery of the heroes in question. They heard some girls arguing, one of whom said that Ajax was much better than Odysseus, explaining:

Ajax, after all, lifted up the warrior son of Peleus and carried him out of the fighting, but noble Odysseus would not.

3 2 The armor of Achilles.

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την δε ετεραν άντειπείν Αθηνάς προνοίαι-

πως επεφωνήσω; πώς ον κατά κόσμον έειπες;

(Ar. Eq. 1056-1057)

καί κε γυνή φεροι άχθος, επεί κεν άνήρ άναθείη, 5 αλλ' ουκ άν μαχεσαιτο.

4 cit. Plut. De Alex. fort. 337e 5 χέσαιτο yap, et μαχέο-αιτο add. Aristophanes: χάο-αιτο κτλ. Lesches? (von Blumenthal).

3 Porph. (Paralip. fr. 4 Schräder) ap. Eust. 285.34

ό την Μικράν Ίλιάδα γράφας ιστορεί μηδε κανθήναι συνήθως τον Αίαντα, τεθήναι δε όντως εν σορώι 8ιά την όργην τον βασιλέως.

Cf. Apollod. epit. 5.7 (supra in Argumenta).

4 Schol. (Τ) II. 19.326, "ος "Ζκνρωι μοι ένιτρεφεται"

ό 8ε την Μικράν Ίλιά8α άναζευγνύντα αύτον άπο Ύη-λεφον προσορμισθήναι εκεί·

Γίηλείδην δ' Άχιλήα φέρε Έ,κνρόνδε θύελλα-ενθ' δ y ες άργαλεον λιμεν' ϊκετο ννκτος

εκείνης.

Cf. schol. (b) et Eust. ad loc.

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But the other retorted, by providence of Athena,

What did you say? How can you be so wrong? Even a woman could carry a load, i f a man put it onto her, but she couldn't fight.33

3 Porphyry, commentary on Homer

The writer of the Little Iliad records that Ajax was not cremated in the usual way either, but placed in a coffin as he was, because of the king's anger. 3 4

4 Scholiast on the Iliad, "the son I have growing up in Scyros"

The author of the Little Iliad says that he landed there on leaving Telephus:

As for Achilles the son of Peleus, the storm carried him to Scyros; there he made the harbor with difficulty that night.

3 3 The last sentence is supplied from the text of Aristophanes, who adds, "for if she'd fight, she'd shite." This is unlikely to be a genuine part of the quotation, though it might be a humorous adaptation of an original "for if she'd fight, she'd retreat," with chesaito substituted for chasaito.

3 4 Agamemnon was angry because Ajax had intended to kill the Achaean leaders. Because Athena made him insane, he had attacked the animals instead.

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5 Schol. (Τ) II. 16.142, "άλλα μιν οίος έπίστατο πήλαι

Αχιλλεύς"

οΐ δέ πλάττονται λέγοντες ως ΤΙηλεύς μεν παρά Χείρωνος έμαθε τήν χρήσιν αυτής, Αχιλλεύς δέ παρά ΤΙηλέως, δ δε οΰδένα έδίδαζεν. και 6 τής Μικράς Ίλιάδος ποιητής·

άμφί δέ πόρκης

χρύσεος άστράπτει, και έπ' αύτώι δίκροος αιχμή.

2 άστραπτεν?

Schol. Pind. Nem. 6.85b, "εγχεος ζακότοιο"

δίκρονν γάρ, ώστε δύο άκμάς έχειν . . . και Αισχύλος (fr. 152) . . . και Έοφοκλής (fr. 152) . . . μετάγουσι δέ τήν ίστορίαν άπό τής Αέσχου Μικράς Ίλιάδος λέγοντος ούτως· άμφί δέ - δίκροος ^δίτη.

6 Schol. Eur. Tro. 822

τον Γανυμήδ-ην . . . Ααομέδοντος νυν είπεν άκολουθήσας τώι τήν Μικράν Τλιάδα πεπονηκότι, δν ο% μεν θεστορίδην Φωκ<αι>έα φασ'ιν, οί δέ Κιναίθωνα Αακεδαιμόνιον, ώς Ελλάνικος (fr. 202c Fowler), οί δέ Αιόδωρον 'Έ,ρνθράίον. φησϊ δέ ούτως-

άμπελον, ήν Κροιάδης έπορεν ού παιδος άποινα

χρυσειτην, φύλλοισιν άγαυοΐσιν κομόωσαν

βότρνσί θ', ους "ΐίφαιστος έπασκήσας Αιϊ πατρ'ι

δώχ', δ δε Ααομέδοντι πόρεν Γανυμήδεος αντί.

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LITTLE I L I A D

5 Scholiast on the Iliad, "only Achilles knew how to wield i t " 3 5

Some tell the fictitious tale that Peleus learned the use of it from Chiron, and Achilles from Peleus, and that he taught nobody else. The poet of the Little Iliad says:

About it a collar of gold flashes, and on it a forked blade. 3 6

Scholiast on Pindar, "his malignant spear"

It was forked, so as to have two points . . . Witness Aeschylus . . . and Sophocles . . . They are borrowing the story from the Little Iliad of Lesches, who says "About it—a forked blade."

6 Scholiast on Euripides, Trojan Women

Here he makes Ganymede the son of Laomedon, following the author of the Little Iliad, who some say was Thestorides of Phocaea, others Cinaethon of Lacedaemon, as Hellanicus has it, and others Diodorus of Erythrae. He says:

The vine that Zeus gave in compensation for his son; it was of gold, luxuriant with splendid foliage and grape clusters, which Hephaestus fashioned and gave to father Zeus, and he gave it to Laomedon in lieu of Ganymede.3 7

3 5 The subject is Achilles' great ash-wood spear. 3 6 If the present tense is correct, the fragment must come

from a speech. Compare Quintus of Smyrna, 7.195 ff. 3 7 Zeus had abducted Ganymede for his own purposes; see

Hymn to Aphrodite 202-217. The golden vine was inherited by Priam, who sent it to Eurypylus' mother to overcome her objections to her son's going to fight at Troy.

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TROJAN CYCLE

Cf. schol. Eur. Or. 1391; Od. 11.520^522 cum schol. (Acusil. fr. 40c Fowler).

7 Paus. 3.26.9

Μαχάονα δε υπό Ένρνπνλου τον Ύηλέφον τελεντήσαί φησιν ό τα. έπη ποιήσας την Μικράν Ίλιάδα.

8 Schol. Lyc. 780

ό δε την Μικράν Ίλιάδα γράφας φησι τρωθήναι τον "Οδυσσέα νπό θόαντος ότε εις Τροίαν ανήρχοντο.

9 Schol. Od. 4.248, "δέκτηι"

ό κυκλικός το ΔΕΚΤΗΙ όνοματικώς άκονει- 7Γαρ' ου φησι τον Όδνσσέα τά ράκη λαβόντα μετημφιάσθαι Άρίσταρχος δε δεκτηι μεν έπαίτηι.

1 0 Schol. Od. 4.258, "κατά δέ φρόνιν ήγαγε πολλήν"

ο'ι δε νεώτεροι φρόνιν την λείαν άπεδέξαντο.

1 1 Hesych. δ 1881

Διομηδειος ανάγκη- παροιμία. Κλέαρχος μέν φησι (fr. 68 Wehrli) . . . ό δέ την Μικράν Ίλιάδα φησίν έπί τής τον Παλλαδίου κλοπής γενέσθαι.

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Machaon died at the hands of Eurypylus son of Telephus, according to the poet of the Little Iliad.

8 Scholiast on Lycophron

The writer of the Little Iliad says that Odysseus was wounded by Thoas when they went up to Troy. 3 8

9 Scholiast on the Odyssey

The Cyclic poet takes D E K T E S as the name of a man, from whom he says Odysseus borrowed the rags and put them on . . . whereas Aristarchus takes the word to mean "a beggar."

1 0 Scholiast on the Odyssey, "and brought back much phronis"

The post-Homeric writers take phronis to mean "booty."3 9

1 1 Hesychius, Lexicon

"Diomedian compulsion": a proverbial expression. Clearchus explains . . . The author of the Little Iliad connects it with the theft of the Palladion.

3 8 That is, he allowed himself to be wounded for the sake of his disguise. On this escapade see Odyssey 4.242-264.

3 9 The context is the same expedition of the disguised Odysseus into Troy. The inference is that in the Cyclic poem he returned to the Greek camp with some booty.

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Paus. Att. δ 14

Διομήδειος ανάγκη- παροιμία . . . οι δε, δτι Διομήδης και Οδυσσεύς το Παλλάδιον κλέψαντες νυκτός εκ Τροίας

επανήιεσαν, επόμενος δε ό Οδυσσεύς τόν Διομήδην έβονλήθη άποκτείναι- εν τήι σελήνηι δε ΐδών την σκιάν τον ξίφους ό Διομήδης, επιστραφείς και βιασάμενος τον Οδυσσέα έδησε και προάγειν έποίησε παίων αυτού τώι

ζίφει το μετάφρενον. τάττεται δε έττί των κατ' ανάγκην τι πραττόντων.

Cf. Conon. FGrHist 26 F 1.34.

1 2 Apollod. epit. 5.14

εις τούτον Όδυσσεύς είσελθεΐν πείθει πεντήκοντα τους άρίστονς, ώς δε ό τήν Μικράν γράφας Ίλιάδα φησί, ιγ'.

ιγ' Severyns: τρισχιλίους (sc. ,γ) libri.

1 3 Schol. Od. 4.285

ό "Αντικλος εκ τον κύκλου.

1 4 Schol. Eur . Hec. 910

Καλλισθένης εν β' τών Ελληνικών {FGrHist 124 F 10a)

4 0 Conon tells a version of the story in which Diomedes is helped over the Trojan city wall by Odysseus but then leaves him outside and gets the Palladion by himself. On the way back, afraid that Odysseus will deprive him of it and of the credit for obtaining

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Pausanias, Collected Attic Words

"Diomedian compulsion": a proverbial expression . . . Others say that Diomedes and Odysseus were on their way back from Troy at night after stealing the Palladion, and Odysseus, who was behind Diomedes, intended to kill him; but in the moonlight Diomedes saw the shadow of his sword, turned round, overpowered Odysseus, tied him up, and forced him to go ahead by beating his back with his sword. The expression is applied to people who do something under compulsion.40

1 2 Apollodorus, The Library

Odysseus persuaded the fifty best men to get inside the horse, or as the writer of the Little Iliad says, thirteen. 4 1

1 3 Scholiast on the Odyssey

Anticlus comes from the Cycle.4 2

1 4 Scholiast on Euripides, Hecuba

Callisthenes in Book 2 of his Greek History writes: "Troy was

it, he pretends that the image he has brought out is not the true Palladion. Odysseus, however, sees it twitch in indignation and realizes that it is the true one. He then makes his abortive attempt to kill Diomedes. He refrains when Diomedes draws his own sword, but it is then Odysseus who drives Diomedes along with blows on the back, not vice versa. 4 i "Thirteen" is a paleo-graphically plausible emendation of the incredible "three thousand" given by the manuscripts. 4 2 In the Odyssey passage, which Aristarchus suspected was not genuine, Anticlus is one of the men in the horse. Odysseus had to restrain him from responding when Helen went round the horse calling the heroes' names and mimicking their wives' voices (4.271-289).

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ούτως γράφει- "έαλω μεν ή Τροία θαργηλιώνος μηνός, ώς μεν τίνες των ιστορικών, ιβ' ιστάμενου, ώς δέ ό την Μικράν Ίλιάδα, η φθίνοντος- διορίζει γάρ αυτός την άλωσιν, φάσκων συμβήναι τότε την κατάληφιν, ήνίκα

νυξ μεν έην μέσση, λαμπρά δ' έπέτελλε σελήνη.

μεσονύκτιος Βέ μόνον τήι όγΒόηι φθίνοντος ανατέλλει, έν άλληι Βέ ού."

Cf. Clem. Strom. 1.104.1, ubi ννξ μεν έην μεσάτα, λαμπρά δ' έπέτελλε σελάνα; Tzetz. in Lyc. 344 ό %ίνων, ώς ην αύτώι συντεθειμένον, φρυκτόν ύποδείζας τοις "ϋλλησιν, ώς ό Αέσχης φησίν, ήνίκα "νυξ - σελήνη." Cf. eund. Posthorn. 719— 721; 773.

1 5 - 2 7 Paus. 10.25.5-27.2

(15) πλησίον Βέ τού 'Έ,λένου Μέγης έστί- τέτρωται Βέ τον βραχίονα ό Μέγης, καθά Βή και Αέσχεως ό Αίσχυλίνου Τίυρραίος έν Ίλίον περσίδι έποίησε- τρωθήναι Βέ ύπό την μάχην τούτον ην έν τήι νυκτί έμαχέσαντο οι Τρώες, ύπό Αδμήτου φησί τον Αύγείου. (16) γέγραπται Βέ και Αυκο-μήδης παρά τον Μέγητα ό Κρέοντος, εχων τραύμα έπί τώι καρπώι- Αέσχεως ούτω φησίν αυτόν ύπό Άγήνορος τρωθήναι. δήλα ούν ώς άλλως γε ούκ αν ό Πολύγνωτος εγραφεν ούτω τά ελκη σφίσιν, εί μή έπελέζατο την ποίησιν τού Αέσχεω . . . (17) Λέσχεως δέ ε'ς την Αϊθραν

4 3 This calculation goes back to Damastes of Sigeum (fr. 7 Fowler) and Ephorus (FGrHist 70 F 226).

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taken in the month of Thargelion, on the 12th, as some historians say, but according to the author of the Little Iliad on the 23rd. For he defines the date by saying that the capture occurred when

I t was the middle of the night, and the bright moon was rising.

I t rises at midnight on the 23rd of the month, and on no other day."43

Cf. Tzetzes, commentary on Lycophron: Sinon, as arranged, showed the Greeks a torch signal, as Lesches says, when "it was the middle of the night, and the bright moon was rising."

1 5 - 2 7 Pausanias, Geography of Greece44

(15) Near Helenus there is Meges. He has a wound in the arm, just as Lescheos the son of Aeschylinus from Pyrrha says in his Sack ofllion; he says he got the wound from Admetus the son of Augeas in the battle that the Trojans fought in the night. (16) Beside Meges there is also painted Lycomedes the son of Creon, with a wound in his wrist: Lescheos says he was so wounded by Agenor. So clearly Polygnotus would not otherwise have depicted their wounds in this way, if he had not read Lescheos' poem . . . (17) Lescheos wrote of Aethra 4 5 that

4 4 In this passage Pausanias describes the great murals painted by Polygnotus in the Cnidian Lesche at Delphi, and comments on their relationship to the epic sources. Besides Homer and Lesches (whom he calls Lescheos), he refers to Stesichorus' Sack ofllion, and this explains his slip in naming Lesches' poem as the Sack of Ilion instead of the Little Iliad.

45 The mother of Theseus; she had been at Troy as a servant of Helen (Iliad 3.144). See the Sack ofllion, fr. 6.

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έποίησεν, ήνίκα ήλίσκετο "Ιλιον, ύπεξελθούσαν ές τό στρατόπεδον αυτήν άφικέσθαι τό Ελλήνων και ύπό τών παίδων γνωρισθήναι τών Θησέως, καί ώς παρ' Αγαμέμνονος αιτήσαι Δημοφών αυτήν ο δε έκείνωι μέν έθέλειν χαρίζεσθαι, ποιήσειν δε οϋ πρότερον έφη πριν 'Ελένην πείσαι- άποστείλαντι δε αύτώι κήρυκα έδωκεν Ελένη τήν χάριν . . . (18) γέγραπται μέν Ανδρομάχη, καί ό παις οί προσέστηκεν έλόμενος τον μαστοΰ. τούτωι Αέσχεως ριφέντι από του πύργου σνμβήναι λέγει τήν τελευτήν, ού μήν ύπό δόγματος γε τών Ελλήνων, άλλ' ίδίαι Νεοπτόλεμον αύτόχειρα έθελήσαι γενέσθαι (οί. ίϊ. 29) . . . (19) Λέσχεως δε και έπη τα Κύπρια (ϊι. 28) διδόασιν Εύρυδίκην γννάίκα Αίνείαι. (20) γεγραμμέναι δε έπϊ κρήνης υπέρ ταύτας Δηϊνόμη τε και Μητιόχη καί Πεΐο~ίς έστι και Κλεοδίκη. τούτων εν Ίλιάδι καλουμένηι Μικράι μόνης έστι τό όνομα της Δηϊνόμης . . . (21) Άστύνοον δε, ου δή έποιήσατο καί Αέσχεως μνήμην, πεπτωκότα ές γόνυ ό Νεοπτόλεμος ξίφει παίει . . . (22) Αέσχεως δε τετρωμένον τον 'Ελικάονα έν τήι νυκτο-μαχίαι γνωρισθήναί τε ύπό Οδυσσέως και έζαχθήναι ζώντα έκ της μάχης φησίν . . . (23) νεκροί δε ό μέν γυμνός Πήλις όνομα έπί τον νώτόν έστιν έρριμμένος, ύπό δέ τον Πήλιν Ήιονεύς τε κείται καί "Αδμητος, ένδεδυκότες έτι τούς θώρακας, και αυτών Αέσχεως Ήιονέα υπό Νεοπτόλεμου, τον δέ ύπό Φιλοκτήτου φησίν απόθαναν τον 'Αδμητον . . . (24) άφίκετο μέν δή έπί τον Καο-σάνδμας ό Κόροιβος γάμον απέθανε δέ, ώς μέν ό πλείων λόγος, ϋπό Νεοπτόλεμου, Αέσχεως δέ ύπό Διομήδους έποίησεν. (25) είσϊ δέ και επάνω τού Κοροιβου Πρίαμος καί Αξίων τε

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when Ilion was being taken, she got out and made her way to the Greek camp and was recognized by the sons of Theseus; and that Demophon asked Agamemnon if he could have her. He said he was willing to grant him this, but only i f he had Helen's agreement. He sent a herald, and Helen granted the favor . . . (18) Andromache is depicted, with her son standing beside her; he has taken hold of her breast. Lescheos says that his end came about when he was thrown from the fortifications, not by a decision of the Greeks but from a private desire of Neoptolemus to be his slayer . . . (19) Lescheos and the epic Cypria give Aeneas Eurydice as wife. (20) Above these women, at a fountain, are depicted Deinome, Metioche, Peisis, and Cleodice. Of these, only Deinome's name appears in the so-called Little Iliad... (21) Astynous, whom Lescheos too mentions, has sunk to his knees and Neoptolemus is striking him with his sword. . . (22) Lescheos says that Helicaon4 6

was wounded in the night fighting, recognized by Odysseus, and brought out of the battle alive . . . (23) Of the dead, there is one naked, Pelis by name, flung on his back, and below Pelis lie Ei'oneus and Admetus, still wearing their cuirasses. Of these Lescheos says that Ei'oneus was killed by Neoptolemus, and Admetus by Philoctetes . . . (24) Coroebus had come in order to marry Cassandra; he was killed by Neoptolemus in the majority version, but Lescheos makes it by Diomedes. (25) Above Coroebus are Priam, Axion, and Agenor. As

4 6 One of the sons of Antenor, who had saved Odysseus and Menelaus from death; see the Argument to the Cypria.

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αϋτάρ Άχιλλήος μεγάθυμου φαίδιμος υιός 'Έ,κτορέτην άλοχον κάταγεν κοίλας im νηας, παΐδα δ' ελών εκ κόλπου έϋπλοκάμοιο τιθήνης ρίψε ποδός τεταγών από πύργου, τον δε πεσόντα

5 έλλαβε πορφνρεος θάνατος και μοίρα κραταιή

( 3 0 ) εκ δ' ελετ' Άνδρομάχην, ήύζωνον παράκοιτιν "Έικτορος, Ί)ν τέ οι αντώι άριστήες Παναχαιών δώκαν έχειν επίηρον αμειβόμενοι γέρας άνδρί' αυτόν τ Άγχίσαο κλυτόν γόνον Ίπποδάμοιο

5 Α'ινείαν έν νηυσιν έβ-ήσατο ποντοποροισιν εκ πάντων Δαναών άγέμεν γέρας έζοχον άλλων.

Fr. 30 Simiae Gorgoni trib. schol. Eur. Andr. 14.

Schol. (Α) 27. 24.735a (Aristonici)

ότι εντεύθεν κινηθέντες οί μεθ' "Ομηρον ποιηται ριπτόμε-νον κατά τού τείχους ύπό τών 'Έ,λλτηνων είσάγουσι τον Άστνάνακτα.

3 1 Ath. 73e

σικυός . . . και Αέσχης·

ώς δ' δτ' άί^ηται σικνός δροσερώι ένι χώρωι.

Αέσχης Kaibel: λευχης, λάχης codd.

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But great-hearted Achilles' glorious son led Hector's wife back to the hollow ships; her child he took from the bosom of his lovely-haired nurse and, holding him by the foot, flung him from the battlement, and crimson death and stern fate took him at his fall. . . .

( 3 0 ) He took from the spoils Andromache, Hector's fair-girt consort, whom the chiefs of all the Achaeans gave him as a welcome reward and mark of honor. And Aeneas himself, the famous son of Anchises the horse-tamer, he embarked on his seagoing ships, to take as a special prize for himself out of all the Danaans.49

Scholiast on the Iliad (Aristonicus)

(The critical sign is) because from this passage [Iliad 24.735) the post-Homeric poets have introduced Astyanax being thrown down from the wall by the Greeks.


The cucumber . . . And Lesches mentions it:

And as when a cucumber grows big in a well-watered spot.

4 9 Tzetzes quotes two passages that were not consecutive in the epic. The first is about Neoptolemus' actions during the sack of the city; the second refers to the subsequent distribution of booty in the Achaean camp.

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3 2 * Aeschin. 1.128

εύρήσετε και τήν πόλιν ημών και τούς προγόνους Φήμης ώς θεού μεγίστης βωμόν ιδρυμένους, και τον Όμηρον πολλάκις έν τήι 'ίλιάδι λέγοντα προ τον τι τών μελλόντων γενέσθαι-

φήμη δ' εις στρατόν ηλθε.

Ι Λ Ι Ο Τ Π Ε Ρ 2 Ι 2

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IG 14.1286 = Tabula Iliaca Β p. 49 Sadurska

[Ίλιάδα και '0]δυσΌ"€ΐαΐ' ραφωιδιών μη- Ιλίου πέρ-σ[ιδα

Dion. Hal. Ant. Rom. 1.68.2

παλαιότατος δέ ων ήμεΐς ϊσμεν <ό> ποιητής Αρκτινος.

De Arctino v. etiam ad Aethiopidem.

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έπεται δέ τούτοις Ιλίου πέρσιδος βιβλία δύο Αρκτί-νου Μιλησίον περιέχοντα τάδε-

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3 2 * Aeschines, Against Timarchus

You will find that our city and our forefathers have established an altar to Rumor, as a most mighty goddess, and that Homer often says in the Iliad, before something happens,

Rumor came to the war host. 5 0

THE SACK OF ILION

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Augustan-Tiberian relief plaque

[The Iliad and] Odyssey, in 48 rhapsodies; the Sack of Ilion [

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities

And, most ancient of all the sources we know of, the poet Arctinus.

On Arctinus see also the testimonia to the Aethiopis.

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This is succeeded by the two books of the Sack of Ilion by Arctinus of Miletus, with the following content:

5 0 This half-line does not occur in the Iliad or Odyssey. Aeschines was perhaps thinking of the Little Iliad.

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(1) Ι'οκί τά 7Γ£ρι τόν ΐππον οί Τρώες ύποπτους έχοντες περιστάντες βουλεύονται 6 τι χρή ποιέίν. και <Κασσάνδρας λεγούσης ενοπλον εν αύτώι δύναμιν είναι, και προσέτι Ααοκόωντος τον μαντεως, Αρ.> τοις μέν δοκεΐ κατακρημνίσαι αυτόν, τοις δέ καταφλέγειν, οι δε ιερόν αυτόν έφασαν δεΐν τήι Άθηνάι άνατεθήναν και τέλος νικάι ή τούτων γνώμη, τραπέντες δέ εις ενφροσύνην ενωχούνται ώς άπηλλαγμενοι τού πολέμου, έν αύτώι δέ τ<ούτωι> <Άπόλλων αντοϊς σημεΐον έπιπέμπει- Αρ.> δύο δράκοντες έπιφανέντες <διανη-ζάμενοι δια της θαλάσσης εκ των πλησίον νήσων Αρ.> τόν τε Ααοκόωντα και τον έτερον των παίδων διαφθείρονσιν. επί δέ τώι τέρατι δνσφορήσαντες οί περι τόν Αίνείαν νπεζήλθον εις την "ΐδην.

(2) και Χίνων τους πυρσούς άνίσχει τοις Άχαιοΐς, πρότερον είσεληλνθώς προσποιητός- οι δέ εκ Τενέδου προσπλεύσαντες, και οί έκ τον δουρείου ίππου, έπι-πίπτουσι τοις πολεμίοις. <ώς δέ ένόμισαν κοιμάσθαι τους πολεμίους, άνοίζαντες συν τοις οπλοις έζήιεσαν και πρώτος μέν 'Έ,χίων Πορθέως άφαλλόμενος άπέθα-νεν- οί δέ λοιποί σειράι έζάφαντες εαυτούς επί τά τείχη παρεγένοντο, και τάς πύλας άνοίζαντες ύπ-εδέζαντο τους άπό Τενέδου καταπλεύσαντας. Αρ.> καί πολλούς ανελόντες την πάλιν κατά κράτος λαμβάνον-σι. και Νεοπτόλεμος μεν άποκτείνει ίίριαμον έπι τόν τοΰ Αιός τού έρκείου βωμόν καταφυγόντα- Μενέλαος δέ άνευρων Έλένην έπι τάς ναϋς κατάγει, Αηιφοβον φονεύσας.

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(1) The Trojans are suspicious in the matter of the horse, and stand round it debating what to do-. <with Cassandra saying that i t contained an armed force, and the seer Laocoon likewise, > some want to push it over a cliff, and some to set fire to it , but others say it is a sacred object to be dedicated to Athena, and in the end their opinion prevails. They turn to festivity and celebrate their deliverance from the war. But in the middle of this < Apollo sends them a sign:> two serpents appear, < swimming across the sea from the nearby islands, > and they kill Laocoon and one of his two sons. Feeling misgivings at the portent, Aeneas and his party slip away to Ida.

(2) Sinon holds up his firebrands for the Achaeans, having first entered the city under a pretence. They sail in from Tenedos, and with the men from the wooden horse they fall upon the enemy. <When they reckoned the enemy were asleep, they opened the horse and came out with their weapons. First Echion, the son of Portheus, jumped out, and was killed; the rest let themselves down with a rope, and reached the walls and opened the gates to let in those who had sailed back from Tenedos. > They put large numbers to death and seize the city. And Neoptolemus kills Priam, who has fled to the altar of Zeus of the Courtyard; Menelaus finds Helen and takes her to the ships after slaying Deiphobus. 5 1

5 1 Compare Odyssey 8.517 f.

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(3) Καο~ο-άνδραν δέ Αϊας ό Ίλεως ττρος βίαν άπο-σπών συνεφελκεται το της Αθηνάς ζόανον εφ ώι παροζννθεντες οί "Ελληνες καταλεΰσαι /δουλεύονται τον Α'ίαντα- S δε επί τον της Αθηνάς βωμόν καταφεύγει, και διασώιζεται εκ του επικείμενου κινδύνου-επει δε άποπλεουσιν οί "Ελληνες, φθοράν αύτώι7 ή Αθηνά κατά το πέλαγος μηχανάται.

(4) και Όδυο-σεως Αστυάνακτα άνελόντος, Νεοπτόλεμος 'Ανδρομάχην γέρας λαμβάνει, και τά λοιπά λάφυρα διανέμονται. Αημοφών δε και Ακάμας Αί-θραν εύρόντες αγουσι μεθ' εαυτών, έπειτα εμπρήσαν-τες την πάλιν ΐίολνζενην σφαγιάζουσιν επι τον του Άχιλλέως τάφον.

F R A G M E N T A

1 Schol. Monac. in Verg. Aen. 2.15, "instar monris equum"

Arctinus dicit fuisse in longitudine pedes C et in latitudine pedes L; cuius caudam et genua mobilia fuisse tradidit.

Servius auctus in Verg. Aen. 2.150, "immanis equi"

Hunc tarnen equum quidam longum centum uiginti <pedes>, latum triginta fuisse tradunt, cuius cauda genua oculi mou-erentur.

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(3) Ajax the son of Ileus, in dragging Cassandra away by force, pulls Athena's wooden statue along with her. The Greeks are angry at this, and deliberate about stoning Ajax. But he takes refuge at Athena's altar, and so saves himself from the immediate danger. However, when the Greeks sail home, Athena contrives his destruction at sea.

(4) Odysseus kills Astyanax, Neoptolemus receives Andromache as his prize, and they divide up the rest of the booty. Demophon and Acamas find Aethra and take her with them. Then they set fire to the city, and slaughter Polyxena at Achilles' tomb.

F R A G M E N T S

1 Scholiast on Virgil, "a horse like a mountain"

Arctinus says that it was 100 feet long and 50 feet wide, and that its tail and knees could move.

Servius auctus on Virgil, "the huge horse"

Some record that this horse was 120 feet long and 30 wide, and that its tail, knees, and eyes could move.

1 inel 8e . . . (f>9opai> avrax, West: eireira . . . KOI tydopav avrois cod.

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2 Schol. (Τ) Ii. 11.515, "ίονς τ έκτάμνειν"

ένιοι δε φασιν ώς ουδέ έπι πάντας τούς ιατρούς 6 έπαινος οντάς έστι κοινός, άλλ' έπι τον Μαχάονα, ον μόνον χειρονργεΐν τίνες λέγονσι- τον γαρ ΐίοδαλε'ιριον διαι-τάσθαι νόσονς . . . τούτο έοικε και Άρκτΐνος έν Ιλίου πορθήσει νομίζειν, έν οίς φτησι·

αυτός γάρ σφιν έδωκε πατήρ <γερας> Έννοσίγαιος

άμφοτέροις· έτερον δ' έτερον κνδίον' εθηκεν τώι μεν κονφοτέρας χείρας πόρεν εκ τε βέλεμνα σαρκός έλειν τμήξαι τε και έλκεα πάντ'

άκέσασθαι, 5 τώι δ' άρ' άκριβέα πάντα ένι στήθεσσιν έθ-ηκεν

άσκοπα τε γνώναι και άναλθέα ίήσασθαι-ός ρα και Αΐαντος πρώτος μάθε χωομένοιο όμματα τ άστράπτοντα βαρννόμενόν τε νόημα.

3 Schol. Eur. Andr. 10

<οΐ δέ> φασιν ότι <ούκ έμελ\εν> ό Έ,ύριπίδης αάνθωι προσέχειν περί τών Τρωικών μύθων, τοις δε χρησιμω-τέροις και άζιοπιστοτέροις- %τησίχορον μεν γάρ (PMGF 202) Ίστορεΐν ότι τεθνήκοι, και τον τήν Πέρο"ΐδα ο~υι>-τεταχότα κνκλικόν ποιητήν ότι και άπό τού τείχονς ριφθείη, ώι ήκο\ονθηκέναι ΈώριπΊδην.

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2 Scholiast on the Iliad, "a doctor is worth many others when i t comes to cutting arrows out"

But some say that this commendation does not apply generally to all doctors, but specially to Machaon, who certain people say was the only one to do surgery, as Podalirius tended i l l nesses . . . This seems to be the view also of Arctinus in the Sack of Ilion, where he says:

For their father the Earth-shaker5 2 himself gave them both the healing gift; but he made one higher in prestige than the other. To the one he gave defter hands, to remove missiles from flesh and cut and heal all wounds, but in the other's heart he placed exact knowledge, to diagnose what is hidden and to cure what does not get better. He it was who first recognized the raging Ajax's flashing eyes and burdened spirit.

3 Scholiast on Euripides, Andromache

But others say that Euripides was not likely to pay attention to Xanthus on the myths about Troy, but only to the more serviceable and trustworthy sources: Stesichorus records that Astyanax was dead, and the Cyclic poet who composed the Sack that he was in fact hurled from the wall, and Euripides has followed him.

5 2 Poseidon. But elsewhere Machaon and Podalirius are the sons of Asclepius.

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4 Dion. Hal. Ant. Rom. 1.69.3

'Αρκτϊνος δέ φησιν υπό Διός δοθήναι Δαρδάνωι Παλ-λάδιον έν και είναι τούτο εν Ίλίωι τέως ή πόλις ήλίσκετο, κεκρυμμένον εν άβατων εικόνα S ' εκείνου κατεσκενασμέ-νην ώς μηδέν της αρχετύπου διαφέρειν άπατης των έπιβουλευόντων ένεκεν εν φανερωι τεθήναι, και αυτήν Αχαιούς έπιβουλεύσαντας λαβείν.

5 * Schol. (D) 11. 18.486a, 'Ίίληϊάδες"

έπτά αστέρες . . . φασίν δέ Ήλέκτραν ού βονλομένην τήν Ιλίου πόρθησιν θεάσαθαι διά το κτίσμα των απογόνων καταλιπέίν τον τόπον ού κατηστέριστο, διόπερ ούσας πρότερον έπτά -γενέσθαι έ£. ή ιστορία παρά τοις κνκλι-κοΐς.

6 Schol. Eur. Tro. 31, "τάς δέ Θεσσαλός λεώς I εϊληχ' Αθηναίων τε θησεϊδαι πρόμοι"

ένιοι ταύτα φασι προς χάριν είρήσθαι, μηδέν yap ει-ληφέναι τούς περί Ακάμαντα και Αημοφώντα έκ των λαφύρων άλλά μόνην τήν Αϊθραν, δϊ ην και άφίκοντο εις "Ιλιον Μενεσθέως ηγουμένου. Αυσίμαχος δέ (FGrHist 382 F 14) τον τήν ΐΐέρσιδα πεποιηκότα φησϊ γράφειν ούτως-

θησείδαις δ' έπορεν δώρα κρείων Αγαμέμνων ήδέ Μενεσθήϊ μεγαλήτορι ποιμένι λαών.

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4 Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities

Arctinus says that a single Palladion was given by Zeus to Dardanus, and that this remained in Ilion while the city was being taken, concealed in an inner sanctum; an exact replica had been made of it and placed in the public area to deceive any who had designs on it, and it was this that the Achaeans schemed against and took. 5 3

5 * Scholiast on the Iliad, "the Pleiades"

Seven stars . . . They say that Electra, being unwilling to watch the sack of Ilion because it was a foundation of her descendants,54 left the place where she had been set as a star, so that whereas they had previously been seven, they became six. The story is found in the Cyclic poets.

6 Scholiast on Euripides, Trojan Women, "and others the Thessalian host has received, and Theseus' sons, the lords of Athens"

Some say that this is said to please the audience, as Acamas and Demophon took nothing from the booty but only Aethra, on whose account they went to Ilion in the first place under Menestheus' leadership. But Lysimachus says that the author of the Sack writes as follows:

To the sons of Theseus the lord Agamemnon gave gifts, and to great-hearted Menestheus, shepherd of peoples.

5 3 This fragment has been suspected of reflecting a Roman claim to possess the true Palladion; see Nicholas Horsfall, CQ 29 (1979), 374 f. But the same claim may have been made in Arctinus' time by the Aineiadai in the Troad. 5 4 She was the mother of Dardanus by Zeus, and so ancestor of Laomedon.

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Ps.-Demosth. 60.29

εμεμνηντ' Ακαμαντίδαι των αιτών kv οϊς "Ομηρος ένεκα της μητρός φησιν Αίθρας Ακάμαντ' εις Ύροίαν στειλαι-ο μεν ούν παντός έπειράτο κινδύνου του σώσαι την εαυτού μητερ' ένεκα.

Ν Ο Σ Τ Ο Ι . Α Τ Ρ Ε Ι Δ Ω Ν Κ Α Θ Ο Δ Ο Σ

T E S T I M O N I A

Schol. Pind. Ol. 13.31a, see below, Testimonia to Eu-melus.


αναφέρεται δε εις αυτόν και άλλα τινά ποιήματα-Αμαζονία, Ίλιάς Μικρά, Νόστοι, κτλ.

Suda ν 500

νόστος- ή ο'ίκαδε επάνοδος ... και οι ποιηταϊ δε οί τους Νόστους νμνήσαντες έπονται τώι Όμήρωι ες όσον εϊσϊ δυνατοί.

φαίνεται ότι où μόνος εις ευρισκόμενος έγραφε Νόστον Αχαιών άλλα καί τίνες έτεροι ex marg. add. codd. GM.

Eust. Od. 1796.52

ό δε τους Νόστους ποιήσας Κολοφώνιος . . . (Telegonia fr. 6).

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Pseudo-Demosthenes, Funeral Oration

The Acamantids recalled the verses in which Homer says that Acamas went to Troy on account of his mother Aethra. He, then, experienced every danger for the sake of rescuing his own mother.55

THE RETURNS

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Scholiast on Pindar, Olympian 13.31a, see the testimonia to Eumelus.


Certain other poems are also attributed to him: the Amazonia, the Little Iliad, the Returns, etc.

The Suda

nostos: a return home. . . . And the poets who have celebrated The Returns follow Homer as far as they are able.

Two manuscripts add from the margin: It appears that it was not one poet alone who wrote The Return of the Achaeans, but several others too.

Eustathius, commentary on the Odyssey

The Colophonian poet of the Returns . . .

5 5 Actually his grandmother. The orator has made a mistake.

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συνάπτει δε τούτοις τά των Νόστων βιβλία πέντε Άγίον Ύροιζηνίου περιέχοντα τάδε-

(1) Αθηνά Αγαμέμνονα και Μενέλαον είς έριν καθίστησι περί τον εκπλον. Αγαμέμνων μεν ονν τον της Αθηνάς έζιλασόμενος χόλον επιμένει- Διομήδης δε και Νέστωρ άναχθέντες είς τήν οίκείαν διασώι-ζονται. μεθ' ονς έκπλενσας ό Μενέλαος, <χειμώνι περιπεσων, Αρ.> μετά πέντε νεών είς Αιγνπτον παραγίνεται, των λοιπών διαφθαρεισών νεών εν τώι πε-λαγει.

(2) ο'ι δε περί Κάλχαντα και Αεοντέα και Πολυ-ποίτην ττεζήι πορενθέντες είς Κολοφώνα Ύειρεσίαν <Κάλχαντα Αρ.> ενταύθα τελεντήσαντα θάπτονσι.

(3) των δε περί τον Αγαμέμνονα αποπλεόντων Άχιλλέως εΐδωλον έπιφανέν πειράται διακωλύειν προ-λέγον τά σνμβησόμενα. <Άγαμέμνων δε θνσας ανάγεται, και Ύενέδωι προσίσχει- Νεοπτόλεμον δε πείθει Θετις άφικομένη έπιμεϊναι δύο ημέρας και θνσιάσαι, και επιμένει, οι δέ ανάγονται, και περί Τήνον χειμάζονται- Αθηνά γάρ έδεήθη Διός τοις "Ελλησι χειμώνα έπιπέμψαι- και πολλαί νήες βνθί-ζονται. Αρ.> εΐθ' ό περί τάς Καφηρίδας πέτρας δηλον-ται χειμων και ή Αΐαντος φθορά τοϋ Αοκρον. <καί έκβρασθέντα θάπτει Θετις έν Μνκόνωι. Αρ.>

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Connecting with this are the five books of the Returns by Agias of Troezen, with the following content:

(1) Athena sets Agamemnon and Menelaus in dispute about the voyage away. Agamemnon, to appease Athena's anger, waits behind; Diomedes and Nestor put out to sea and reach their homes safely.56 After them Menelaus sails out, <encounters a storm, and> arrives in Egypt with five ships, the rest having been destroyed at sea.57

(2) The group around Calchas, Leonteus, and Poly-poites 5 8 make their way on foot to Colophon; Teiresias59

dies there and they bury him. (3) When Agamemnon's party is preparing to sail,

Achilles' ghost appears and tries to prevent them by foretelling what wi l l happen. < Agamemnon sets out after making a sacrifice, and puts in at Tenedos, but Thetis comes to Neoptolemus and persuades him to wait for two days and make sacrifice, which he does. The others set sail, and meet with a storm near Tenos, for Athena had besought Zeus to send a storm on the Greeks; and many ships sink. > Then the storm around the Kapherian rocks 6 0 is described, and how the Locrian Ajax perished <and his body was washed up and buried by Thetis on Myconosx

5 6 See Odyssey 3.130-183. 5 7 See Odyssey 3.276-300. 5 8 Apollodorus adds Amphilochus and Podalirius. 5 9 Apollodorus says Calchas, which makes much better sense. 6 0 The east-facing promontory at the southern end of Euboea.

On the death of Ajax see Odyssey 4.499-510.

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(4) Νεοπτόλεμος δί Θέτιδος αποθεμένης πεζήι ποιείται την πορείαν καϊ παραγενόμενος εις θράικην Όδυσσέα καταλαμβάνει εν τήι Μαρωνείαι. και το λοιπόν άννει της οδού, και τελευτήσαντα Φοίνικα θάπτει· αυτός δε εις Μολοσσούς άφικόμενος αναγνωρίζεται Τίηλεΐ.

(5) <έπει>τα Αγαμέμνονος νπο Αιγίσθου και Κλυ-ταιμήστρας άναιρεθέντος νπ' Όρέστον και ΤΙυλάδον τιμωρία, καϊ Μενελάον εις την οίκείαν άνακομιδή.

F R A G M E N T A

1 Paus. 10.28.7

ή δέ Όμηρου ποίησις ες Όδυσσέα και ή Μινυάς τε καλούμενη και οί Νόστοι (μνήμη γαρ δή και εν τανταις "Αιδου και των εκεί δειμάτων εστίν) 'ίσασιν ούδένα Ενριΐ-νομον δαίμονα.

2 * Et. Gen., Magn., Gud. s.v. νεκάδες

παρά μεν τοις κυκλικοίς ai φνχαϊ νεκάδες λέγονται.

3 Ath. 281b

φιλήδονον δέ οί ττοιτ/ταί και τον άρχαιόν φασι γενέσθαι Ύάνταλον. ό γούν τήν των Ατρειδών ποιήσας κάθοδον άφικόμενον αυτόν λέγει προς τους θεούς και συνδιατρί-βοντα εξουσίας τυχειν παρά τού Διος αίτήσασθαι ότου επιθυμεί· τον δέ, προς τάς απολαύσεις άπλήστως διακεί-

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(4) Neoptolemus, following Thetis' advice, makes his way by land. On coming to Thrace he finds Odysseus at Maronea. He completes the rest of his journey, and when Phoenix dies he buries him. He goes on as far as the Molossians, and is recognized by Peleus.61

(5) Then follow Orestes' and Pylades' avenging of Agamemnon's murder by Aegisthus and Clytaemestra, and Menelaus' return to his kingdom. 6 2

F R A G M E N T S


But Homer's poem about Odysseus and the so-called Minyas and the Returns (for in these too there is mention of Hades and the terrors in it) know of no demon Eurynomus.

2 Etyinologicum Genuinum

In the Cyclic poets the souls of the dead are called nekades.


The poets say that old Tantalus too was a voluptuary. At any rate the author of the Return of the Atreidai tells that when he came to the gods and spent some time with them, and was granted the liberty by Zeus to ask for whatever he wanted, he,

6 1 Apollodorus says that he became king of the Molossians after winning a battle and that Andromache bore him a son, Molossus.

62 See Odyssey 3.303-312.

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μενον, υπέρ αυτών τε τούτων μνείαν ποιήσασθαι και του ζην τον αυτόν τρόπον τοις θεοίς. έφ' οίς άγανακτήσαντα τον Αία την μέν εύχήν άποτελέσαι δια την ύπόσχεσιν, όπως δε μηδέν άποΧανηι τών παρακειμένων αλλά δια-τελήι ταραττόμενος, υπέρ της κεφαλής έζήρτησεν αύτώι πέτρον, δι όν ου δύναται τών παρακειμένων <ήδονής> τυχείν ονδενός.

4 Paus. 10.29.6

ε<ττι δέ πεποιημένα έν Νόστοις Μ,ινύου μέν τήν Κλυ-μένην θυγατέρα είναι, γήμασθαι δέ αυτήν Κεφάλωι τώι Αηίονος, και γενέσθαι σφίσιν "Ιφικλον παΐδα.

5 Paus. 10.30.5

υπέρ τούτους ίΛαϊρά έστιν έπί πέτραι καθεζομένη. περι δέ αυτής πεποιημένα εστίν έν Νόστοις άπελθεΐν μέν παρθένον ετι έζ ανθρώπων, θυγατέρα δέ αυτήν είναι ΤΙροίτου τον θερσάνδρου, τον δέ είναι Έ,ισύφον.

6 Argum. Eur. Med.

περί δέ τον πατρός αυτού (Ιάσονος) Αϊσονος ό τούς Νόστους ποιήσας φησίν ούτως-

αντίκα δ' Αϊσονα θήκε φίλον κόρον ήβώοντα,

γήρας άποζνσασα ίδνίηισι πραπίδεσσιν,

φάρμακα πόλλ' εφονσα ένί χρνσέοισι λέβησιν.

3 ίνί Schneidewin: έπί codd.

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being insatiably devoted to sensual pleasures, spoke of these, and of living in the same style as the gods. Zeus was angry at this, and fulfilled his wish, because of his promise, but so that he should get no enjoyment from what was set before him but suffer perpetual anxiety, he suspended a boulder over his head. Because of this he is unable to get <pleasure from > anything set before him.


It is written in the poem Returns that Clymene was the daughter of Minyas, that she married Cephalus the son of Deion, and that their child was Iphiclus.


Above these63 is Maira, sitting on a rock. Concerning her it is written in the poem Returns that she departed from mankind still a virgin, and that she was the daughter of Proitos son of Thersander, and that he was a son of Sisyphus.

6 Argument of Euripides, Medea

About Jason's father Aison the poet of the Returns says:

And straightway she [Medea] made Aison a nice young lad, stripping away his old skin by her expertise, boiling various drugs in her golden cauldrons.

6 3 In Polygnotus' mural; see above on the Little Iliad (p. 135).

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Αντιμάχου re του Τηίου ΐ'ιπόντος- (Epigoni fr. 2) "έκ γαρ δώρων πολλά κάκ άνθρώποισι πέλονται," Αγίας έποίη-crev

δώρα γαρ ανθρώπων νόον ήπαφΐν ήδέ καί έργα.

Αγίας Thiersch: Avy|[e|ias cod.

8* Schol. Od. 2.120

Μυκήνη Ίνάχου θυγάτηρ και Μΐλίας της Ώκβανον- ής και Αρέστορος "Αργός, ώς έν τώι κύκλωι φέρεται.


τον Ασκλ[ηπιον δ' ύ]πο Αιος κα[τακταν]θήναι γ€-γρ[άφασιν Ή]ο-ίοδο? . . . \[έγΐται] δέ και έν το[ΐς Νόσ]τοις.

1 0 Poculum Homericum MB 36 (p. 101 Sinn)

[κατά τον ποιητήν] 'Α[γίαν] έκ τών [Νό]στων Άχα[ι]ών. θάνατος Άγαμέμ[νο]νος. Comités Agamem-nonis Ntuaç, Άλκμέων, Μήστωρ Αϊαντος, quos aggre-diuntur 'Αντίοχος et 'Apyeîoç.

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And where Antimachus of Teos had said "For from gifts much il l comes to mankind," Agias wrote:

For gifts delude peoples minds and (corrupt) their actions. 6 4

8* Scholiast on the Odyssey

Mycene was the daughter of Inachus and the Oceanid Melia. She and Arestor were the parents of Argos, as it is related in the Cycle.


He]siod has written that Ascl[epius] was killed by Zeus . . . [It is sai]d also in t[he Ret]urns.

1 0 Caption to vase relief (third-second century B C )

[After the poet] A[gias], from the [Rejturns of the Achaeans: the death of Agamemnon.

The vase shows followers of Agamemnon named Alcmeon and Mestor son of Ajax, and a third whose name is illegible, reclining at a feast and being attacked by men called Antiochus and Argeios.

6 4 Probably an allusion to the bribing of Eriphyle.

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1 1 Apollod. Bibl. 2.1.5

εγημεν (Ναυπλιος), ώς pèv οί τραγικοί λέγονσι, Κλυ-μίνην την Κατρέως, ώς δε ό τους Νόστους γράφας, ΦίΚΰραν . . . καϊ έγεννησε Παλαμ.ηδην Οϊακα Ναυσιμέ-δοντα.

1 2 Ath. 399a, "ψΰαι"

ό την των Ατρειδών κάθοδον πεποιηκώς έν τώι τρίτωι φησίν

Ίσον δ' Έρμιονεύς ποσί καρπαλίροισι μετασττων

φνας Ζγχεϊ ννξε.

2 φοίας Kaibel.

1 3 Schol. Od. 4.12, "εκ δούλης"

αντ-η, ώς μλν Άλεζίων . . . ώς 8ε ό των Νόστων ποιητής, Τετις.

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Nauplius married Clymene the daughter of Catreus, according to the tragedians, but according to the author of the Returns he married Philyra . . . and he fathered Palamedes, Oeax, and Nausimedon.65


The poet of the Return of the Atreidai says in Book 3:

Hermioneus chased swiftly after Isus and stabbed him in the groin with his spear.66


She67 was, as Alexion says, . . . but as the poet of the Returns says, a Getic 6 8

6 5 Nauplius' sons came to assist Aegisthus and were killed by Orestes and Pylades (Pausanias 1.22.6, after a painting on the Acropolis).

6 6 Hermioneus was perhaps a son of Menelaus who assisted Orestes in the battle against Aegisthus' men.

6 7 The slave by whom Menelaus fathered Megapenthes (Odyssey 4.12).

6 8 The meaning may be that her name was Getis. But the poet had probably said 4K SOUXTIS TfTiSos, meaning "from a Getic slave." This is the earliest reference to the Getae, aThracian tribe.

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Clem. Strom. 6.25.1

αυτοτελώς γάρ τά έτερων ΰφελόμενοι ώς 'ίδια έζ-ήνεγκαν, καθάπερ Έ,νγάμμων 6 Κνρηναΐος έκ Μουσαίου το Trepi θεσπρωτων βιβλίον όλοκληρον.

Phot. Bibl. 319a26

και περατονται 6 επικός κύκλος έκ διαφόρων ποιητών συμπληρονμενος μέχρι της άποβάσεως Όδνσσέως της εις Ίθάκην, έν ήι και νπό τον παιδός Τηλεγόνον άγνοονντος κτείνεται.

Euseb. Chron.

Ol. 4.1: (v. ad Cinaethonem).

Ol. 53.2: Eugammon Cyrenaeus qui Telegoniam fecit

agnoscitur.

Choerob.(?) περί ποσότητος, An. Ox. ii.299.26 (Herod-ian. i.249.9, ii.451.20 Lentz)

τά eVi πραγματείας ήγουν συγγράμματος δια της ει διφθόγγον γράφονται, οίον Όδΰσσεια ή κατά Όδυσ-σέα, Ηράκλεια ή κατά 'ΐίρακλέα, Ύηλεγόνεια ή κατά Ύηλέγονον.

Cf. Eust. ll. 785.21.

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TELEGONY. THESPROTIS

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For on their own initiative (the Greeks) have stolen other peoples works and brought them out as their own; as Eugammon of Gyrene stole from Musaeus his entire book about the Thesprotians.

Photius, Library

And the Epic Cycle is completed by being filled up from various poets as far as Odysseus' landing at Ithaca, where he is killed in ignorance by his son Telegonus.

Eusebius, Chronicle

OA. 4.1: (see on Cinaethon).

Ol. 53.2 (567/566): Eugammon the Cyrenaean, who composed the Telegony, is recognized.

Choeroboscus(?), On Syllabic Quantity

Those that refer to a work (a written composition) are spelled with the diphthong ei, for example Odysseia for the work about Odysseus, Herakleia for that about Heracles, Telegoneia for that about Telegonus.

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μετά ταϋτά εστίν Όμηρου Όδύσσεια· έπειτα Τηλεγο-ν'ιας βιβλία δυο Έ,ύγάμμωνος Κυρηναίου περιέχοντα τάδε-

(1) οί μνήστορες υπό των προσηκόντων θάπτονται, και Όδυσσενς θύσας Ννμφαις εις τΗλιν άποπλεΐ έπισκεψόμενος τά βονκόλια, και ζενίζεται παρά Πο-λυζένωι δώρόν τε λαμβάνει κρατήρα, και επί τούτωι τά περί Ύροφώνιον και Άγαμήδην και Αύγέαν. έπειτα εις Ίθάκην καταπλεύσας τάς υπό Ύειρεσίου ρηθείσας τελεΐ θυσίας.

(2) και μετά ταύτα είς ®εσπρωτούς άφικνεΐται <και κατά τάς Ύειρεσίου μαντείας θυσιάσας έζιλάσκεται Ποσειδώνα, Αρ.> και γαμεϊ Καλλιδίκην βασιλίδα των θεσπρωτών. έπειτα πόλεμος συνίσταται τοΐς Θεσ-πρωτοϊς προς Βρΰγους, Όδυσσέως ηγουμένου, ενταύθα "Αρης τους περί τον Όδυσσέα τρέπεται, και αντώι ε'ις μάχην Αθηνά καθίσταται- τούτους μεν Απόλλων διαλύει, μετά δε τήν Καλλιδίκης τελευτήν την μεν βασιλείαν διαδέχεται Γίολνποίτης Όδυσσέως υιός, αυτός δε εις Ίθάκην άφικνεΐται. <καί ευρίσκει εκ Πτ/νελόπης Πολιπόροην αΰτώι γεγεννημένον. Αρ.>

(3) κάν τοντωι Ύηλέγονος <παρά Κίρκης μαθών ότι παις Όδυσσέως εστίν Αρ.> έπι ζητησιν τού πατρός

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After this comes Homer's Odyssey, and then the two books of the Telegony by Eugammon of Cyrene, with the following content:

(1) The suitors are buried by their families. Odysseus, after sacrificing to the Nymphs, sails off to Elis to inspect his herds. He is entertained by Polyxenus, and receives the gift of a mixing bowl, on which is represented the story of Trophonius, Agamedes, and Augeas.6 9 Then he sails back to Ithaca and performs the sacrifices specified by Teiresias.

(2) After this he goes to the land of the Thesprotians <and appeases Poseidon by making sacrifice in accord with Teiresias' prophecies >,7 0 and marries the Thesprotian queen Callidice. Then war breaks out between the Thesprotians, led by Odysseus, and the Bryges. Ares turns Odysseus' forces to flight, and Athena faces him in combat, but Apollo pacifies them. After Callidice's death the kingdom passes to Polypoites, Odysseus' son, and he himself returns to Ithaca. <There he finds that Ptoliporthes has been born to him from Penelope. >

(3) Meanwhile Telegonus, <having learned from Circe that he is Odysseus' son, > has sailed in search of his father,

6 9 Agamedes and Trophonius were commissioned by Augeas (Polyxenus' grandfather) to build him a treasure house. They made a secret door in it, which they made use of to enter and steal the treasure. Augeas set a trap, and Agamedes was caught in it; but Trophonius cut off his accomplice's head to conceal his identity, and escaped. Herodotus' story of Rhampsinitus (2.121) is another version of the same folk tale. 7 0 See Odyssey 11.121-131.

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πλέων άποβάς εις τήν Ίθάκην τέμνει την νήσον έκβοηθήσας δέ Οδυσσεύς νπο τον παιδος αναιρείται κατ άγνοιαν. <καϊ Όδνσσέα βοηθονντα τώι μετά χείρας δόρατι τρνγόνος κέντρον την αίχμήν εχοντι τιτρώσκει, και Όδνσσεύς θνήισκει. Αρ.>

(4) Τηλέγονος δε έπιγνονς την άμαρτίαν τό τε του πατρός σώμα και τον Τηλέμαχον και την ΐΐηνελόπην προς την μητέρα μεθίστησιν ή δε αυτούς αθανάτους ποιεί <είς Μακαρων νήσους αποστέλλει Αρ.>, και συνοικεί τήι μέν ΤΙηνελόπηι Τηλέγονος, Κίρκηι δέ Τηλέμαχος.

F R A G M E N T A

1* Ath. 412d

γέρων τε ών (Όδυσσεύς)

ήσθιεν άρπαλέως κρέα τ άσπετα και μέθυ ήδύ.

2* Synes. Epist. 148

ου γαρ σώας έκ νυκτός εγείρει κύμ' έπιθρώισκον.

Telegoniae ascripsit Ε. Livrea, ΖΡΕ 122 (1998) 3.

3 Paus. 8.12.5

και έν δεξιάι τής οδού γης χώμα ύφηλόν ΤΙηνελόπης δέ είναι ταφον φασίν, ούχ όμολογούντες τα ες αυτήν ποιήσει <τήι> θεσπρωτίδι όνομαζομένηι. έν ταύτηι μέν γέ

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and after landing at Ithaca he is ravaging the island. Odysseus comes out to defend it and is killed by his son in ignorance. <And when Odysseus comes to defend it , he wounds him with the spear he carries, which has the barb of a sting ray as its point, and Odysseus dies.>71

(4) Telegonus, realizing his mistake, transports his fathers body and Telemachus and Penelope to his mother. She makes them immortal < sends them to the Isles of the Blest>, and Telegonus sets up with Penelope, and Telemachus with Circe.

F R A G M E N T S

1* Athenaeus, Scholars at Dinner

And Odysseus in his old age

ate heartily of abundant meat and sweet wine.

2 * Synesius, Epistles

For they are not awakened at night by the crashing waves.

3 Pausanias, Description of Greece And on the right of the road there is a high mound; they say it is the grave of Penelope, not agreeing in her regard with the poem called the Thesprotis. In this poem it is stated that

7 1 This was taken as the fulfilment of Teiresias' prophecy in Odyssey 11.134 that death would come to Odysseus in a mild form and "from the sea." Others, however, rejecting the Telegonus story, held that the expression meant "away from the sea."

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έστι τήι ποιήσει έπανήκοντι εκ Τροίας Όδνσσεΐ τεκείν τήν ΤΙηνελόπην ίΐτολιπόρθην παΐδα.

4 Eust. Od. 1796.48

6 δε τήν Ύηλεγόνειαν γράφας Κνρηναΐος έκ μεν Καλυ-φοΰς Τηλέγονον ν'ιόν Όδνσσεΐ αναγράφει ή Τηλέδαμον, έκ δέ Πηνελόπης Τηλέμαχον και Άρκεσίλαον.

5 Schol. Od. 11.134, "θάνατος δέ τοι έζ αλός"

έξω τής αλός- οϋ γαρ οΐδεν 6 ποιητής τα κατά τον Τηλέγονον και τά κατά το κέντρον τής τρνγόνος.

ενιοι δέ . . . φασιν ως έντενζει τής Κίρκης "Ηφαιστος κατεσκενασε Τηλεμάχωι δόρν έκ τρνγόνος θαλάσσιας, ην Φόρκνς άνέίλεν έσθίουσαν τονς έν τήι Φορκίδι λίμνηι ίχθνς· ον τήν μεν έπιδορατίδα άδαμαντίνην, τον δέ στν-ρακα χρνσονν είναι· ώι τον Όδνσσέα άνέίλεν.

οί νεώτεροι τά περί Τηλέγονον άνέπλασαν τον Κίρκης και Όδνσσέως, ός δοκεί κατά ζήτησιν τον πατρός εις Ίθάκην έλθών νπ' αγνοίας τον πατέρα διαχρησ-ασ^αι τρνγόνος κέντρωι.

6 Eust. Od. 1796.52

ό δέ τονς Νόστους ποιήσας Κολοφώνιος Ύηλέμαχον μέν φησι τήν Κίρκην νστερον γήμαι, Τηλέγονον δέ τον έκ Κίρκης άντιγήμαι ΤΙηνελόπην.

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after Odysseus returned from Troy Penelope bore him a son Ptoliporthes.

4 Eustathius, commentary on the Odyssey

The Cyrenaean author of the Telegony records Telegonus (or Teledamus) as Odysseus' son from Calypso, and Telemachus and Arcesilaus as his sons from Penelope.72

5 Scholia on the Odyssey, "and death will come to you from the sea"

Meaning away from the sea; the poet does not know the story about Telegonus and the barb of the sting ray. But some . . . say that on a visit to Circe Hephaestus made Telegonus a spear from a sting ray that Phorcys had killed when it was eating the fish in Phorcys' lake. Its head was of adamant, and its shaft of gold. With it he killed Odysseus. Post-Homeric writers invented the story of Telegonus the son of Circe and Odysseus, who is supposed to have gone to Ithaca in search of his father and killed him in ignorance with the barb of a sting ray.

6 Eustathius, commentary on the Odyssey

The Colophonian poet of the Returns says that Telemachus afterwards married Circe, while Telegonus, the son from Circe, married Penelope.73

7 2 "Calypso" is an error for Circe. "Telegonus or Teledamus" is Eustathius' characteristic way of noting variants he found in his manuscripts. Arcesilaus is probably an alternative name for Ptoliporthes. 7 3 This time Eustathius has got Telegonus' mother right but made a mistake about the poem.

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Κ Ρ Ε Ω Φ Τ Λ Ο Τ O I X A A I A S Α Λ Ω 2 Ι 2

T E S T I M O N I A

Strabo 14.1.18

Έ,άμιος δ' ην και Κρεώφυλος, δν φασι δεζάμενον ζενίαι ποτέ "Ομηρον λαβείν δώρον την έπιγραφήν τον ποιήματος δ καλονσιν Οιχαλίας άλωσιν. Καλλίμαχος δε τουναντίον εμφαίνει δι επιγράμματος τίνος, ώς εκείνον μεν ποιήσαντος, λεγομένου δ' Όμηρου δια τήν λεγομένην ξενίαν (Call. Epigr. 6 Pf.)-

του Σαμίου πόνος ειμί, δόμωι ποτέ θείον άοιδόν δεζαμένου, κλείω δ' Έ,ϋρυτον δσσ έπαθεν

καί ξανθήν Ίόλειαν Όμήρειον δέ καλενμαι γράμμα. Κρεωφνλωι, Ζεν φίλε, τοΰτο μέγα.

τινές δέ διδάσκαλον Όμηρου τοϋτόν φασιν οι δ' ου τούτον άλλ Αριστέαν τον Υίροκοννήσιον.

Clem. Strom. 6.25.1, see below, Testimonia to Panyassis.

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C R E O P H Y L U S , THE CAPTURE OF OICHALIA

T E S T I M O N I A

Strabo, Geography

Another Samian was Creophylus, who they say once received Homer as his guest and was rewarded with the attribution of the poem known as the Capture of Oichalia. But Callimachus indicates the converse in an Epigram, that Creophylus composed it but that it was called Homer's as a result of the said hospitality:

I am the work of the Samian, who once received in his house the divine bard, and I celebrate Eurytus' misfortunes and the flaxen-haired Iole; but I am known as a writing of Homer's—dear Zeus, a great compliment to Creophylus!

And some say this man was Homer's teacher, though others say it was not he but Aristeas of Proconnesus.

Clement of Alexandria, Miscelhnies: see below, Testi-monia to Panyassis.

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Proclus, Vita Homeri 5

λέγουσιν ούν αυτόν εις "lov πλενσαντα διατρΐφαι μέν παρά Κρεωφύλωι, γράφαντα δε Οιχαλίας άλωσιν τού-τωι χαρίσασθαι- ήτις νυν ώς Κρεωφύλου περιφέρεται.


αναφέρεται δε εις αυτόν και άλλα τινά ποιήματα-Άμαζονία, Ίλιάς Μικρά . . . Οιχαλίας άλωο-ις . . .

Suda κ 2376 (ex Hesychio Milesio)

Ήίρεώφνλος Άστυκλέους, Xlos ή Χάμιος, έποποιός. τινές δε αντον ιστόρησαν Όμηρου γαμβρόν επί θυγα-τρί, οι δε φ'ιλον μόνον γεγονέναι αυτόν Όμηρου λέ-γουσι, και νποδεζάμενον "Ομηρον λαβείν παρ' αυτού τό ποίημα την της Οιχαλίας άλωο-ιι».

Cf. schol. Plat. Resp. 600b; Phot. Lex. s.v. Κρεόφνλος.

F R A G M E N T A

1 Epimerismi Homerici ο 96 Dyek

τούτο δε ενρήσομεν και έν τήι <Οί>χαλίας αλώσει, ή εις Όμηρον αναφέρεται, έστι δέ Κρεώφνλος ό ποιήσας-Ηρακλής δ' έστιν ό λέγων προς Ίόλην

"ώ γύναι, <αντή> ταύτα γ' έν όφθαλμοΐσιν όρηαι."

αύτη suppl. Kochly γ' Peppmuller; τ' cod.

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Proclus, Life of Homer

So they say he sailed to Ios and spent time with Creo-phylus, and when he wrote the Capture of Oichalia, he gave it to him, and it is now current under Creophylus' name.


Certain other poems are also attributed to him: the Amazonia, the Little Iliad... the Capture of Oichalia...


Creophylus son of Astycles, from Chios or Samos, epic poet. Some relate that he was Homer's son-in-law, while others say that he was just Homer's friend, and that after giving Homer hospitality he received from him the poem The Capture of Oichalia.

F R A G M E N T S

1 Homeric Parsings

We shall find this form (opncu) also in the Capture of Oichalia, which is attributed to Homer, though Creophylus is its author. Heracles is addressing Iole:

"Lady, you can see this with your <own> eyes."

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2 Strabo 9.5.17

την δ' Οίχαλίαν ττόλιν Έ,νρντον λίγομένην 'έν τε rot? τόποις τούτοις ίστορονσι και έν Έώβοίαι και έν Άρκαδίαι . . . περί δέ τούτων ζητοΰσι, και μάλιστα τις ήν ή ύπό Ηρακλέους άλούσα, και περί τίνος σννέγραφΐν ό ποιή-σας την Οιχαλίας άλωσιν.

Paus. 4.2.3

Θεσσαλοί δέ και Έίύβοίίς (ήκει γαρ δή ες άμφισβήτησιν των έν τήι Ελλάδι <τά> πλείω) λέγονσιν, οι μέν ώς το Εύρύτιον - χωρίον δέ 'έρημον έφ' -ημών έστι το Έύρύτιον -πόλις το άρχαΐον ήν και έκαλέίτο Οιχαλία- τώι δέ Εύ-βοέων λόγωι Κρεώψυλος έν Ήρακλείαι πεποίηκεν όμολο-γούντα.

3 Schol. Soph. Track. 266

διαφωνεΐται δέ ό των Εύρντιδων αριθμός· Ησίοδος μέν γαρ δ' φησιν (fr. 26.27-31) . . . Κρΐώφυλος δέ β', Αριστοκράτης δέ (FGrHist 591 F 6) γ', Τοξέα Κλντίον Δηίονα.

Π Ε Ι Χ Α Ν Δ Ρ Ο Τ Η Ρ Α Κ Λ Ε Ι Α

T E S T I M O N I A

Theocritus, Epigr. 22

τον τον Ζανός δδ' νμιν νίον ώνήρ

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2 Strabo, Geography

They locate Oichalia, famed as the city of Eurytus, both in these parts1 and in Euboea and in Arcadia... They investigate these questions, and above all which was the Oichalia taken by Heracles, and which one the author of the Capture of Oichalia wrote about.


The Thessalians and Euboeans (most things in Greece being controversial) say, in the latter case that Eurytion, a deserted site in my time, was anciently a city and was called Oichalia; and Creophylus in his Heraclea2 has written things in agreement with the Euboeans' story.

3 Scholiast on Sophocles, Trachiniae

There is disagreement about the number of Eurytus' sons: Hesiod says there were four . . ., Creophylus two, and Aristocrates three, Toxeus, Clytius, and Deion.

P I S A N D E R , HERACLEA

T E S T I M O N I A

Theocritus, epigram for a statue

This man first of the poets of old, Pisander of Camirus,

1 The Thessalian Hestiaiotis. 2 Evidently Pausanias' name for The Capture of Oichalia.

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τον λεοντομάχαν, τον όζύχειρα, πράτος των έπανωθε μονσοττοιών ΤΙείσανδρος συνέγραψεν ουκ Κάμιρου χώσσους έζεπόνασεν έΐπ' άέθλους.

Strabo 14.2.13

και ΥΙείσανδρος 8' ό τήν 'ΐίράκλειαν γράφας ποιητής 'Ρόδιος.

Steph. Byz. s.v. Κάμιρος

ΐΐείσανδρος δέ ό διασημότατος ποιητής Καμιρίνς ήν.

Quintil. Inst. or. 10.1.56

Quid? Herculis acta non bene Pisandros?

Clem. Strom. 6.25.1

αυτοτελώς γαρ τα έτερων νφελόμενοι ώς ϊδια έξ-ήνεγκαν, καθάπερ Εΰγάμμων . . . και ΤΙΐίσανδρος <6> Καμιρεύς Τίεισίνου του Αινδίου τήν 'Υίράκλειαν.

Anon. frag, de musica, Gramm, hat. vi.607 Keil (ex Aristoxeno, fr. 92 Wehrli)

Prior est musicä inventione metrica; cum sint enim anti-quissimi poetarum Homerus, Hesiodus, Pisander, hos secuti elegiarii . . .

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wrote up the son of Zeus, the lion-battler, the fierce of hand, and told of all the labors he worked his way through.

Strabo, Geography

Pisander too, the poet who wrote the Heraclea, was a Rhodian.

Stephanus of Byzantium, Geographical Lexicon

And Pisander the celebrated poet was from Camirus.

Quintilian, Training in Oratory

D i d Pisander not treat well of the deeds of Hercules?

Clement of Alexandria, MisceUanies

For on their own initiative (the Greeks) have stolen other peoples works and brought them out as their own; as Eugammon. . . and Pisander of Camirus stole the Heraclea from Pisinous of Lindos.

Anonymous fragment on music (from Aristoxenus)

The invention of music was preceded by that of meter. For whereas the most ancient poets are Homer, Hesiod, and Pisander, and they were followed by the elegiac poets, etc.

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έπων ποιηταϊ yeyoVa.cn πολλοί- τούτων δ' eio-l κρά-τιστοι "Ομηρος, Ησίοδος, Πείσαυδρος, Πανύασσις, Αντίμαχος.

Cf. eiusdem Chrestomathiam ap. Phot. Bibl. 319a.

Suda π 1465 (ex Hesychio Milesio)

Πείσανδρος ΤΙείσωνος καί Άρισταιχμας, Καμιραΐος άττο Ρόδου· Κάμιρος γαρ την πόλις 'Ρόδου. καί τίνες μεν αντόν Έώμόλπου (ΕϋμηλουΡ) τον ποιητοϋ σνγχρο-νον καί έρώμενον Ίστοροΰσι, τινές δέ και Ησιόδου πρεσβΰτερον, οι δέ κατά την λγ' ολυμπιάδα (= 648/5) τάττονσι. 'έσχε δέ και άδελφήν Αιόκλειαν. ποιήματα δέ αύτοΰ Ηράκλεια iv βιβλίοις β'- έστι δε τα Ηρακλέους έργα- ένθα πρώτος Ήρακλεΐ ρόπαλον περι-τέθεικε. τα δέ άλλα τών ποιημάτων νόθα αύτον δοξάζεται, γενόμενα υπό τε άλλων καί Άριστέως τον ποιητον.

FRAGMENTA

1 [Eratosth.] Catast. 12

Λέων ούτος έστι μέν τών επιφανών άστρων, δοκεΐ δ' ύπό Διός τιμηθήναι τοΰτο το ζώιδιον δια τό τών τετραπόδων ήγείσθαι. τινές δέ φασιν ότι Ηρακλέους πρώτος οντος άθλος ήν εις το μνημονενθήναι· φιλοδοξών γάρ μόνον

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Proclus, Life of Homer

There have been many hexameter poets; the chief among them are Homer, Hesiod, Pisander, Panyassis, and An-timachus.3


Pisander son of Piso and Aristaechma, a Camirian from Rhodes. (Camirus was a city of Rhodes.) Some make him the contemporary and the loved one of the poet Eumolpus (Eumelus?), but some date him even before Hesiod, and others place him in the 33rd Olympiad [= 648/645 B C ] . He had a sister Dioclea. His poetry consists of the Heraclea, in two books, an account of Heracles' deeds, in which he was the first to equip Heracles with a club. 4 His other poems are considered spurious, the work of others including the poet Aristeus.5

F R A G M E N T S

1 Pseudo-Eratosthenes, Catasterisms

Leo: this is one of the conspicuous constellations. I t is held that this zodiacal animal was honored by Zeus6 because of its being the first among the beasts. But some say that this was the first of Heracles' Labors to be commemorated; for this was the

3 This canonical list of five epic poets is repeated by Tzetzes in several places. 4 Compare fr. 1. According to Megaclides, Stesichorus (PMGF 229, compare S16) was the first to represent Heracles as wearing a lionskin and carrying a bow and club.

5 Aristeas of Proconnesus may be meant. 6 That is, in being set among the stars.

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τοΰτον ονχ όπλοις άνέίλΐν, αλλά σνμπλακςϊς άπέπνιζεν. λίγα St περί αύτοΰ Πείσανδρος ό 'Ρόδιος. όθεν και την δοράν αύτον ίσχεν, ώς ΐνδοζον έργον πίποιηκώς.

Cf. Hygin. Astr. 2.24; schol. German. Arat. pp. 71 et 131 Breysig.

Strabo 15.1.8

των δί κοινωνησάντων αύτώι της στρατΐίας απογόνους eivai τους Χίβας, σύμβολα τον γίνονς σωιζοντας τό τ« δοράς άμπίχΐσθαι καθάπΐρ τον 'ΐίρακλέα και τό σκντα-ληφορεϊν και ίπικεκαύσθαι βονσϊ και ήμιόνοις ρόπαλον . . . (9) και τ) τον 'ίΐρακλΐονς δι στολή τ; τοιαύτη πολύ νίωτίρα της Τρωικής μνήμης «'στί, πλάσμα των τήν 'ΐΐράκλΐίαν ποιησάντων, ΐϊτΐ ΐΐύσανδρος ήν eiT άλλος τις- τά δ' αρχαία ξόανα ονχ ούτω διίσκεύασται.

2 Paus. 2.37.4

κ(φαλήν δέ ΐΐχΐν έμοι δοκίΐν μ-ίαν και ού πλείονας, Τίείσανδρος δε ό Kapipev?, ίνα τό θηρίον ΤΕ δοκοίη φοβΐρώτΐρον και αύτώι γίνηται ή ποίησις άξιόχρίως μάλλον, αντί τούτων τάς κΐφαλάς έποίησε τήι ύδραι τάς πολλας.

3 Schol. Pind. ΟΙ. 3.50b

#ήλίΐαν δε ei7re καί χρνσοκέρων άπό ιστορίας· ό γάρ <τήν> Θησηΐδα γράφας (fr. 2) τοιαύτην αυτήν <λέγ€ΐ>, και ΤΙείσανδρος ό Καμιρεύς καί Φερεκύδης (fr. 71 Fowler).

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only creature that in his eagerness for fame he did not kill with weapons but wrestled with and throttled. Pisander of Rhodes tells about it. That was why he got its skin, because he had accomplished a famous deed.

Strabo, Geography

They say that the Sibai7 are descendants of those who accompanied Heracles on this expedition, and that as a token of their lineage they wear skins like Heracles, carry staves, and brand their cattle and mules with the device of a club . . . This manner of equipping Heracles, too, is much more recent than the Trojan saga, a fiction of whoever wrote the Heraclea, whether it was Pisander or someone else; the old wooden statues of him are not fashioned like this.


In my opinion the Hydra had one head, not more, but Pisander of Camirus, desiring to make the creature more frightful and his own poem more noteworthy, gave it its many heads for these reasons.

3 Scholiast on Pindar, Olympians

He made it [the Cerynian Hind] female and gold-horned on the basis of legend; for the author of the Theseis describes it like that, as do Pisander of Camirus and Pherecydes.

7 An Indian tribe.

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4 Paus. 8.22.4

ΐΐείσανδρος δέ αυτόν ό Καμ,ιρεύς άποκτεΐναι τάς όρνιθας ου φησιν, άλλά ώς φόφωι κροτάλων εκδιώζειεν αΰτάς.

5 Ath.469c

Πείσανδρος iv δευτέρωι Ηράκλειας το δέπας έν ώι Βιεπλευσεν 6 Ηρακλής τον 'Ω,κεανον είναι μεν φησιν Ηλίου, λαβείν δ' αυτό 7ταρ' Ώκεαν<οΰ τ>6ν 'ΐίρακλεα.

6 Schol. Pind. Pyth. 9.185a

όνομα δέ αΰτήι Άλκηίς, ώς φησι Πείσανδρος ό Καριρευς.

7 Schol. Ar. Nub. 1051a

οι δέ φασιν ότι τώι Ήρακλεΐ πολλά μογήσαντι περί θερμοπύλας ή Αθηνά θερμά λουτρά επαφήκεν, ώς Πεί-ο-ανδρος·

τώι δ' iv Θερμοπύληισι θεά γλαυκώπις Άθήνη ποίει θερμά λοετρά παρά ρηγμΐνι θαλάσσης.

Cf. Zenob. vulg. 6.49; Diogenian. 5.7; Harpocr. Θ 11.

8* Stob. 3.12.6

Πεισάνδρου·

ού νεμεσις και ψεΰδος υπέρ φνχής άγορεύειν.

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Pisander of Camirus says that (Heracles) did not kill the (Stymphalian) birds, but scared them off with the noise of clappers.


Pisander in Book 2 of the Heraclea says that the cup in which Heracles sailed across Oceanus belonged to the Sun god, but that Heracles got it from Oceanus.

6 Scholiast on Pindar, Pythians

The name of Antaeus' daughter was Alcei's, according to Pisander of Camirus.

7 Scholiast on Aristophanes, Clouds

Some say that when Heracles had toiled strenuously in the neighborhood of Thermopylae Athena sent forth hot springs for him, as Pisander has it:

For him at Thermopylae the steely-eyed goddess Athena made hot bathing-places beside the seashore.

8* Stobaeus, Anthology

Pisander:

There is no blame in telling a lie to save one's life.

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9 * Hesych. ν 683

νους où παρα Κΐνταύροισι·

παροιμιώδες, εστί δΕ ΏΕΐσάνδρου κομμάτιορ, Ιπι των αδυνάτων ταττόμίνον.

Cf. Diogenian. 6.84; Macar. 6.12; Apostol. 12.12; Phot, s.v., Suda v525.

ov παρά Hesych. etc.: ουκ ίνι Phot., Suda.

1 0 Ath. 783c

ΤΙείσανδρος δέ φησιν Ήρακλέα Τελαμώνι της άπι "\λιον στρατΐίας άριστίΐον άλεισον δοΰναι.

1 1 Epimerismi Homerici A 52Β Dyck

écTTi δί και

àé

παρά ΐίεισάνδρωι τωι Kapeipei.

Cf. Et. Gud. s.v. àei.

1 2 Plut. De Herodoti malignitate 857f

καίτοι των παλαιών και λογίων ανδρών ονχ Όμηρος, ονχ 'rlo-ίοδος, ουκ Αρχίλοχος, οϋ Τΐΐίσανδρος, ου Στησίχορος, οΰκ Αλκμάν, οΰ ι\ίνδαρος Αιγυπτίου λόγον ϊσχον ΐίρακλέους η Φοίνικος, αλλ ëva τούτον ϊσασι πάντες

'ϋρακλΐα τον Βοιώτιον όμοΰ και Αργίίον.

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9 * Hesychius, Lexicon

There is no sense with the Centaurs.

A proverbial saying. I t is a phrase from Pisander, applied to impossible situations.


Pisander says that Heracles gave Telamon a goblet as a prize for heroism in the campaign against Ilion.

1 1 Homeric Parsings (on the forms of the word aiei, "always")

There is also ae in Pisander of Camirus.

1 2 Plutarch, On the Malice of Herodotus

Yet of the ancient men of letters neither Homer nor Hesiod, Archilochus, Pisander, Stesichorus, Alcman, or Pindar took note of an Egyptian or Phoenician Heracles: all of them know only this one Heracles, the Boeotian and Argive one.

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T E S T I M O N I A

Suda π 248 (ex Hesychio Milesio)

Γίαννασις ΐίολνάρχου Αλικαρνασσευς, τερατοσκόπος και ποιητής έπων, ός σβεσθεϊσαν την ποιητικήν έπ-ανήγαγε. Δούρις 8έ (FGrHist 76 F 64) Διοκλέονς τ€ παΐδα ανέγραφε και Χάμιον, ομοίως δέ και 'ϊΐρόδοτον Θούριον. ίστόρηται δέ ΐΐανύασις Ηροδότου τον ιστορικού εξάδελφος- γέγονε γαρ Γίανύασις ΐίολνάρχου, ό δέ Ηρόδοτος Αύξου του ΐίολνάρχου αδελφού, τινές δέ ού Αυξην άλλα 'Ροιώ τήν μητέρα Ηροδότου ΐίανυάσι-δος άδελφήν ιστόρησαν, ό δέ ΤΙανύασις γέγονε κατά τήν οη' ολυμπιάδα- κατά δέ τινας πολλώι πρεσβύτερος- και γάρ ήν έπί των ΐίερσικών. άνηιρέθη δέ ύπό Αυγδάμιδος τον τρίτου τυραννήσαντος Αλικαρνασσού, έν δέ ποιηταϊς τάττεται μεθ' "Ομηρον, κατά δέ τινας και μετά Ήσίοδον και Άντίμαχον. έγραφε δε και 'Άράκλειαν εν βιβλίοις ιδ' εις έπη ,θ'', Ιωνικά εν πενταμέτρωι (εστί δέ τά περί Κόδρον και Νηλεα και τας Υωνικας αποικίας) εις έπη >ζ.

Merkelbach-Stauber, Steinepigramme aus dem griechischen Osten 01/12/01 = IG 12(1).145

5 κού] μην 'ϊίροδότον γλύκιον στόμα και Υίανύασσιν

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PANYASSIS , HERACLEA

T E S T I M O N I A


Panyassis the son of Polyarchus, from Halicarnassus, interpreter of prodigies and hexameter poet, who restored the art of verse from extinction. Duris, however, registers him as the son of Diocles and as a Samian, just as he makes Herodotus come from Thuri i . 8 Panyassis is recorded as being the cousin of the historian Herodotus, for Panyassis was the son of Polyarchus, and Herodotus of Polyarchus' brother Lyxes. Some, however, relate that it was not Lyxes but Herodotus' mother Rhoio that was Panyassis' sister. Panyassis is dated to about the 78th Olympiad (= 468/465 Be); or according to some, considerably earlier, as he lived at the time of the Persian Wars. He was put to death by Lygdamis, the third tyrant of Halicarnassus. As a poet he is ranked after Homer, and by some authorities also after Hesiod and Antimachus. He wrote a Heraclea in fourteen books, to the sum of 9,000 verses; Ionica in elegiacs, dealing with Codrus, Neleus, and the Ionian colonies, to the sum of 7,000 verses.

Hellenistic verse inscription from Halicarnassus

Nor was it ancient Babylon that nurtured Herodotus'

8 The point is that Duris denied Halicarnassus' claims to both of its major authors.

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ή[δν]επτ) ϋαβνλών ετρεφεν ώγυγίη, άλλ' Αλικαρνασσού κραναον πέδον ων δια

μολπάς κλειτον έν Ε λ λ ή ν ω ν άστεσι κνδος έχει.

Ibid. 01/12/02 de Halicarnasso

45 έσπειρεν Γίαννασσιν επών άρίσημον ανακτά, Ίλιακών Κνπρίαν τίκτεν άοιδοθέτην.

Inscr. in poetae effigie, Mus. Neapol. inv. 6152 ( I . Sgobbo, Rendiconti dell'Accademia Archeologica di Napoli 46 [1971] 115 sqq.)

ΐΐανύασσις 6 ττοιηττης {?'} λνπ-ηροτατός έστι.

Dion. Hal. De imitatione fr. 6.2.2-4

Ησίοδος μεν γαρ εφρόντισεν ηδονής δι" ονομάτων λειότητος και συνθέσεως εμμελούς- Αντίμαχος δέ εντονίας και αγωνιστικής τραχντητος και τον σνν-ήθονς τής εξαλλαγής- Πανυασις δέ τάς τε άμφοϊν άρετάς είσ-ηνέγκατο, και αντος πραγματείαι και τήι κατ at/τον οίκονομίαι διήνεγκεν.

Cf. Quintil. Inst. Or. 10.1.52-54.

Clem. Strom. 6.25.1

αυτοτελώς γαρ τα έτερων νφελόμενοι ώς ίδια έξ-

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honeyed voice and sweet-versing Panyassis, but Halicar-nassus' rocky soil; through their music it enjoys a proud place among Greek cities.

Another

(This city) sowed the seed of Panyassis, famous master of epic verse; it gave birth to Cyprias, the poet of Trojan epic.

Inscription on a statue of the poet

Panyassis the poet is a severe pain.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, On imitation

For Hesiod aimed at pleasing by smoothness of names and melodious construction; Antimachus at well-toned, athletic toughness and departure from the familiar; while Panyassis brought the virtues of both, he in turn excelling by bis treatment of his material and its disposition.


For on their own initiative (the Greeks) have stolen other

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ήνεγκαν, καθάπερ Έ,νγάμμων . . . Πανύασ-ις τε ό Άλικαρνασσενς παρά Κρεωφύλον τον Έαμιον την Οιχαλίας αλωσιν.

Euseb. Chron.

Ol. 72.3: Pannyasis poeta habetur inlustris.

Proclus, Vita Homeri 1, v. ad Pisandrum.

F R A G M E N T A

1 Paus. 9.11.2

έπιδεικννονσι δέ (οί Θηβαίοι) Ηρακλέους των παίδων των εκ Meyapaç μρήμα, ουδέν τι άλλοίως τα ές τον θάρατορ λέγοντες ή %τησίχορος ό Ίμεραίος (PMGF 230) καί ΤΙαννασσις έρ τοις επεσιν εποίησαν.

2 Paus. 10.8.9

Πανυασο-ις δέ ό Πολυάρχου πεποιηκώς ές Ήρακλέα έπη θυγατέρα Άχελώιον την Κασταλίαν φησϊν είναι, λέγει γαρ δη περί τον Ηρακλέους·

ΐίαρνησσον νιφόεντα θοοις δια ποσσϊ περήσας ϊκετο Κασταλίης Αχελωιδος άμβροτον νδωρ.

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people's works and brought them out as their own; as Eugammon . . . and Panyassis of Halicarnassus stole the Capture of Oichalia from Creophylus of Samos.

Eusebius Chronicle

OA. 72.3 (490/489): the poet Panyassis is celebrated.

For Panyassis in the canon of epic poets, see above on Pisander.

F R A G M E N T S


The Thebans also display a memorial to Heracles' children by Megara, telling no different story about their death from what Stesichorus of Himera and Panyassis related in their verses.9


Panyassis the son of Polyarchus, the author of a Heracles epic, makes Castalia a daughter of Achelous. For he says of Heracles:

Crossing snowy Parnassus with swift feet, he came to Acheloian Castalia's immortal water.

9 The reference is to Heracles' killing his children in a fit of insanity, a story best known to us from Euripides' tragedy Heracles. The next fragment may refer to his visit to Delphi to seek purification. According to Apollodorus, Library 2.4.12, the oracle told him to go to Tiryns and serve Eurystheus, who would make him undertake a series of difficult tasks.

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3 Clem. Protr. 2.35.3

Πανυαο-σις γάρ προς τούτοις και άλλους πάμπολλους άνθρώποις λατρενσαι θεούς ιστορεί, ώδε πως γράφων

"τλή μεν Δημήτηρ, τλή δε κλντός Άμφιγνηεις,

τλή δε ΠοσΈΐδάων, τλή δ' άργνρότοζος Απόλλων

άνδρϊ παρά θνητώι θητενσέμεν εις ενιαντόν,

τλή δέ <καϊ> όβριμόθνμος "Αρης υπό πατρός

ανάγκης,"

καϊ τά έπϊ τούτοις.

3 θητενεμεν Sylburg: θήσαι μέγαν Meineke.


Ιΐανύασις δε Ύριπτόλεμον 'Έ,λευσινος λέγει- φησι γάρ Δήμητρα προς αυτόν έλθειν.

Cf. Hygin. Fab. 147.

5 Sext. Emp. Adv. math. 1.260

ol Ιστορικοί τον άρχηγόν ημών της επιστήμης Ασκλη-πιόν κεκεραννώσθαι λέγονσιν . . . %τησ'ιχορος μέν έν Έριφύληι (PMGF 194) ειπών ότι τινάς τών έπι θήβαις πεσόντων άνιστάι . . . Πανυασ"ΐς δέ δια τό νεκρόν Ύνν-δάρεω άναστήσαι.

Cf. schol. Eur. Ale. 1; Apollod. Bibl. 3.10.3; Philod. De pietate Β 4906 Obbink; schol. Pind. Pyth. 3.96.

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3 Clement of Alexander, Protreptic

For Panyassis relates that a whole number of other gods beside these were in service to mortals, writing as follows:

"Demeter put up with it , renowned Hephaestus put up with it , Poseidon put up with i t , silverbow Apollo put up with menial service with a mortal man for the term of a year; grim-hearted Ares too put up with it , under compulsion from his father,"

and so on. 1 0


But Panyassis makes Triptolemus a son of Eleusis, for he says that Demeter came to the latter.1 1

5 Sextus Empiricus, Against the Professors

The antiquarians say that the author of our science, Asclepius, was struck by the thunderbolt. . . Stesichorus in the Eriphyh saying that it was because he resurrected some of those who fell at Thebes . . . but Panyassis that it was for resurrecting the dead Tyndareos.12

1 0 Someone, perhaps Athena, is consoling Heracles, recalling various mythical episodes of gods who submitted to servitude under mortal masters. The allusions were probably explained more fully in what followed, and fragments 4 and 5 fit well in this context.

1 1 That is, the king in whose house she served as nurse was called Eleusis, not Keleos as in the Hymn to Demeter.

1 2 Apollo, upset at the destruction of his son Asclepius, killed the Cyclopes, the manufacturers of the thunderbolt. It was to atone for this that he was made to serve Admetus for a year.

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6 Steph. Byz. s.v. Βέμβινα

κώμη τής Νεμέας . . . Τίανναο-ις έν Ηράκλειας πρώτηι-

δέρμα τε θήρειον Βεμβινήταο λέοντος,

καϊ άλλως-

7

και Βεμβινήταο πελώρου δέρμα λέοντος.

8 [Eratosth.] Catast. 11

Καρκίνος- ούτος δοκεΐ έν τοις άστροις τεθήναι δι "Upav, ότι μόνος, 'ϋρακλεΐ τών άλλων σνμμαχονντων ότε την ΰδραν άνήιρει, έκ της λίμνης έκπηδήσας έδακεν αΰτοΰ τον πόδα, καθάπερ φησί Πανυασις έν 'ίΐρακλείαι- θυμω-θείς δ' ό Ηρακλής δοκεΐ τώι ποδί συνθλάσαι αυτόν, όθεν μεγάλης τιμής τετΰχηκε καταριθ μου μένος έν τοις ιβ' ζωιδίοις.

Cf. Hygin. Astr. 2.23; schol. Arat. 147; schol. German. Arat. pp. 70 et 128 Breysig.

9 Ath. 498d

Πανυαο"σις τρίτωι Ηράκλειας φησίν

του κεράσας κρητήρα μέγαν χρνσοΐο φαεινόν

σκΰπφους αινυμενος θαμέας πότον ήδύν έπινεν.

1 φαεινού Kinkel.

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6 Stephanus of Byzantium, Geographical Lexicon

Bembina: a village in the territory of Nemea . . . Panyassis in Book 1 of the Heraclea:

and the animal skin from the lion of Bembina,

and again:

7

and the skin of Bembina's monster lion.

8 Pseudo-Eratosthenes, Catasterisms

Cancer (The Crab): it is held that this was placed among the stars by Hera because it alone, when all the others were helping Heracles when he was killing the Hydra, leaped out of the lake and bit him in the foot, as Panyassis says in the Heraclea; and Heracles in anger is held to have crushed it with his foot. Hence it has been highly honored by being numbered among the twelve creatures of the Zodiac.


Panyassis says in Book 3 of the Heraclea:

Mixing some of i t in a great shining golden bowl, he took cup after cup and enjoyed a fine bout of drinking. 1 3

1 3 This may refer to Heracles' entertainment by the centaur Pholos as he was on his way to capture the Erymanthian Boar (Apollodorus, Library 2.5.4). Compare Stesichorus, Geryoneis, PMG 181 = S19.

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1 0 Schol. Pind. Pyth. 3.177b

(.νιοι δέ την Θνώνην έτέραν της Χεμέλης φασϊν είναι, τροφον τον Αιοννσον, ώσπερ ΐΐαννασις έν τρίτοι Ηράκλειας-

και ρ 6 μεν εκ κόλποιο τροφον θόρε ποσσϊ ®νώνης.

1 1 Ath. 172d

πεμμάτων δε πρώτον φησι μνημονενσαι Ώαννασσιν Σέλευκος (FGrHist 634 F 2) εν ο'ις περί της παρ' Αίγυπτίοις άνθρωποθνσίας διηγείται, πολλά μεν έπιθείναι λέγων πέμματα, παλλάς δε νοσσάδας όρνις.

πέμματα πόλλ' έπιθείς, πολλάς δε τε νοσσάδας όρνις.

Versum restituit Meineke.

1 2 Ath. 469d

ΤΙαννασις δ' έν ^πρώτωι Ηράκλειας παρά Νηρέως φησι την τον Ηλίου φιάλην κομίσασθαι τον Ήρακλέα και διαπλενσαι εις Έρνθειαν.

πρώτωι cod.: τετάρτωι Diibner: πέμπτωι Robert: ια' Wilamo-witz

198

PANYASSIS

1 0 Scholiast on Pindar, Pythians

But some say that Thyone is different from Semele, being Dionysus' nurse, as Panyassis does in Book 3 of the Heraclea:

And he jumped out from the bosom of his nurse Thyone.


As for cakes, Seleucus says that Panyassis was the first to mention them, in his account of the Egyptians' human sacrifice, saying that (Busiris)

placed many cakes on top, and many fledgling birds.


Panyassis says in Book 1(?) of the Heraclea that Heracles got the Sun's goblet from Nereus and sailed over to Erythea in i t . 1 4

14 It is very unlikely that this came as early as Book 1. Fragment 13 suggests that it may have appeared in book 4 or 5.

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1 3 "Ammonius" in II. 21.195 (P. Oxy. 221 ix 8; v.93 Erbse)

[Σε'λ]ευκος δέ <τον αυτόν Ώκεανώι τον Άχελώιον ειι̂ αι. ΤΙαννασσιν άττοφαίνει λεγοντα> iv ε [Ήρ]ακλεία?·

"7τω[ς-] δ' ε7Γορ[ευ#]τ)? ρενμ' Ά[χ]ελ[ω]'ιον άρ·νυ[ρο]δίνα,

Ωκεανοί ποταμοΐο [δι'] ενρέος νγ[ρ]ά κελενθα;"

<τον αντον - λεγοντα> suppl. West.

1 4 * Schol. Nic. Ther. 257a, "6τ ανθεσιν εϊσατο χαλκοί;"

γράφΐται δε και "ανθεσι χάλκης" . . . εστί δε ή χάλκ·η άνθος, άφ' ον και την πορφνραν ώνόμασαν. ομοίως το έμφερες τό εν τήι 'Ή,ρακλείαι·

φολίς δ' άπέλαμττε φαεινή· άλλοτε μεν κνάνον, τοτέ δ' ανθεσιν εϊσατο

χαλκού.

1 5 Hygin. Astr. 2.6.1

Engonasin: hunc Eratosthenes Herculem dicit supra draco-nem conlocatum, de quo ante diximus, eumque paratum ut ad decertandum, sinistra manu pellem leonis dextra clauam tenentem. Conatur interficere draconem Hesperidum custo-dem, qui numquam oculos operuisse somno coactus existi-matur, quo magis custos adpositus esse demonstratur. De hoc etiam Panyasis in Heraclea dicit.

200

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1 3 "Ammonius," commentary on Iliad 21

Seleucus <points out that Panyassis identified Achelous with Oceanus> in Book 5 of the Heraclea:

"And how did you travel the stream of silver-eddying Achelous, over the watery ways of the broad river Oceanus?"15

1 4 * Scholiast on Nicander, Theriaca, "sometimes he looks like flowers of copper"

There is a variant reading "flowers of chalke" . . . chalke is a (purple) flower, from which the name is applied to the purple fish. Likewise the simile in the Heraclea:

And its shining scale glittered; sometimes it looked like blue enamel, and sometimes like flowers of copper.1 6

1 5 Hyginus, Astronomy

The Kneeler:17 Eratosthenes says that this is Heracles stationed over the aforementioned serpent, ready for the battle, holding his lionskin in his left hand and his club in his right. He is endeavoring to kill the Hesperides' guardian serpent, which is held never to have closed its eyes under compulsion of sleep, a proof of its guardian status. Panyassis tells of this in his Heraclea.

15 The addressee is Heracles, the speaker perhaps Geryon. 1 6 Meaning perhaps green like verdigris. The lines probably

come from a description of the serpent that guarded the Golden Apples.

1 7 The modern constellation Hercules.

201


Cf. [Eratosth.] Catast. 4; schol. German. Arat. pp. 61 et 118 Breysig.

Avienius, Phaen. 172—187

Ilia laboranti similis succedet imago protinus, expertem quam quondam dixit Aratus

(63-66) nominis et cuius lateat quoque causa laboris.

175 Panyasi sed nota tarnen . . . 177 nam dura immodici memorat sub lege tyranni

Amphitryoniaden primaeuo in flore iuuentae, qua cedunt medii longe secreta diei

180 Hesperidum uenisse locos atque aurea mala, inscia quae lenti semper custodia somni seruabat, carpsisse manu, postquam ille nouercae insaturatae odiis serpens uictoris ab ictu spirarumque sinus et fortia uincula laxans

185 occubuit: sic membra genu subnixa sinistro sustentasse ferunt, sic insidisse labore deuictum fama est.

1 6 Schol. Od. 12.301

Νυμ,ψόδω/ooç ό την Έ,ικελίαν πΐριηγησάμΐνος (FGrHisi 572 F 3) καϊ ΥΙολύαινος (639 F 7) και ΐΐανναο-ις φύλακα των Ήλιου βοών Φάλακρόν φηαπ ytvecrOat.

Φάλακρον Meineke: φνλάκιον, φνλάϊκον, φνλαιον codd.

202

PANYASSIS

Avienius, Phaenomena

Next you will see a figure as of one exerting himself. Aratus said of old that it had no name and that the reason of its exertion was obscure; but it was known to Panyassis . . . He relates that Amphitryon's son in the first flower of his youth, being subject to the harsh rule of an immoderate tyrant, came where the unknown South retreats into the distance, to the regions of the Hesperides,18 and plucked the golden apples guarded by a custodian ignorant of sluggish sleep, after that serpent, the creature of a stepmother insatiable in her hatred, 1 9 succumbed to the victor's blow, slackening its sinuous coils that barred the way. Thus, they say, he held his body supported on his left knee, and thus the tale is that he rested, overcome by his exertions.


Nymphodorus the author of the Description of Sicily, Polyaenus, and Panyassis say that the guardian of the Sun's cattle was Phalacrus.

1 8 Panyassis apparently located the Hesperides to the far south of Africa. Pherecydes was to transfer them to the far north (fr. 17 Fowler ~ Apollodorus, Library 2.5.11). SeeJHS 99 (1979), 145.

1 9 Hera, Heracles' implacable enemy.

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1 7 Paus. 10.29.9

ΤΙαννασσις δέ έποίησεν ώς θησενς και ΤΙειρίθονς επί τών θρόνων παράσχοιντο σχήμα ον κατά δεσμώτας, προσ-φνή δέ από τον χρωτός αντί δεσμών σφισιν έφη την πέτραν.

Cf. Apollod. epit. 1.24; schol. Ar. Eq. 1368.

1 8 Comm. in Antim. p.442 Matthews, "Χτνγός ΰδωρ"

υποτίθεται έν "Αιδον, καθάπερ και Τ1αννασσ[ις λέγων περί τ]ον Σισ[ν]φον έν "Αιδου [οίκτος φτησίν

ως άρα μιν είπόντα κατασ[τέγασε Έ,τνγός] νδωρ.

1 9 Stob. 3.18.21 (ΐΐαννάσσιδος); 12-19 cit. etiam Ath. 37a, 12-13 et Suda οι 135

"ζειν', άγε δή και πιν'- αρετή νν τις έστι και

αύτη,

ος κ ανδρών πολν πλείστον έν είλαπίνηι μέθν

πινηι

εν καί επισταμένως, άμα τ άλλον φώτα κελενηι.

ίσον δ' ος τ έν δαιτί και έν πολέμωι θοός άνήρ,

5 νσμίνας διέπων ταλαπενθέας, ένθά τε πανροι

θαρσαλέοι τελέθονσι μένονσί τε θονρον άρηα.

τον κεν εγώ θείμην Ίσον κλέος, ος τ' ένί δαιτί

τερπηται παρεών αμα τ άλλον λαόν άνώγηι.

ον γάρ μοι ζώειν γε δοκει βροτός ονδε βιώναι

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Panyassis wrote that Theseus and Pirithous on their chairs did not give the appearance of being bound there, but that instead of bonds the rock had grown onto their flesh.20

1 8 Commentary on Antimachus, Thebaid, "the Water of Shuddering"

He places it in Hades, in the same way as Panyassis, speaking of Sisyphus in Hades, says:

After he had spoken thus, the Water [of Shuddering cover]ed him over.

1 9 Stobaeus, Anthology; lines 12-19 also Athenaeus, Scholars at Dinner

"Come on, friend, drink! This too is a virtue, to drink the most wine at the banquet in expert fashion, and to encourage your fellow. It's just as good to be sharp in the feast as in battle, busy amid the grievous slaughter, where few men are brave and withstand the furious fight. I should count his glory equal, who enjoys being at the feast, and encourages other folk to as well. A man doesn't seem to me to be really alive, or to live the fife of a hardy mortal, i f he sits out

2 0 They were detained in the Underworld after they went down with the aim of securing Persephone as Pirithous' wife. Heracles saw them when he went down to capture Cerberus.

205


άνθρώποιο β'ιον ταλασίφρονος, όστις άπ' οΐνον

θυμόν έρητύσας μείνηι πότον, άλλ' ένεόφρων.

οίνος γαρ πυρί Ίσον έπιχθονίοισιν ονειαρ,

έσθλόν άλεζίκακον, πάσης συνοπηδόν άοιδής.

έν μεν γαρ θαλίης έρατόν μέρος άγλα'ιης τε,

έν δέ χοροιτνπίης, έν δ' ίμερτής φιλότητος,

έν δέ τε μενθήρης και δυσφροσννης αλεωρή.

τω σε χρή παρά δαιτί δεδεγμένον ενφρονι θνμώι

π'ινειν, μηδέ βορής κεκορημένον ήΰτε γΰπα

ήσθαι πλημΰροντα, λελασμένον ευφροσυνάων."

4 δ' ος τ West: τ' ôç codd. 7 κεν Nauck: μεν codd. 11 μείνηι West: πίνει codd. 13 πάσηι συνοπηδόν άνίηι Ath., Suda 14 έρατόν Ath.: Ίίρόν Stob. 16 άλεωρή Hense: άλεγεινής codd.

2 0 Ath. 36d

ΐΐαννασις δ' 6 έποποιός την μέν πρώτην πόσιν απονέμει Χάρισιν, "υραις και Διονύσωι, την δέ δεντέραν Άφροδί-τηι καϊ πάλιν Διοννσωι, "Ύβρει δέ και Άτηι την τρίτην. ΤΙαννασίς φησι-

"πρώται μέν Χάριτες τ έλαχον καϊ έύφρονες τΩραι

μοίραν καϊ Διόνυσος έρίβρομος, οι περ έτενζαν

τοις δ' έπι Κυπρογένεια θεά λάχε και Διόνυσος,

ένθα τε κάλλιστος πότος άνδράσι γίνεται οίνου-

ει τις μέ<τρα> πίοι καϊ υπότροπος οΐκαδ' άπέλθοι

206

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the party restraining his appetite for the wine: he's an idiot. Wine is as much of a blessing as fire for us on earth: a good shield against harm, accompaniment to every song, for it has in it a delightful element of the festive, of luxury, of dancing, of entrancing love, and a refuge from care and depression. So you must take the toasts at the feast and drink merrily, and not sit costive like a vulture after you have fed your face, oblivious of good cheer."21

2 0 Athenaeus, Schohrs at Dinner

The epic poet Panyassis assigns the first round of drinks to the Graces, the Horai, and Dionysus, the second to Aphrodite and Dionysus again, but the third to Hybris and Ate. He says:

"The Graces and the cheerful Horai take the first portion, and Dionysus the mighty roarer, the ones who created it. After them the goddess born in Cyprus takes her share, and Dionysus, at the stage where the wine session is at its most perfect for men: i f you drink in measure and go back

21 The speaker is perhaps Eurytus at Oichalia, encouraging his guest Heracles to drink more deeply. I take fragments 20-22 to be from Heracles' reply as he tries to restrain his too bibulous host. This temperate Heracles, the counterpart of the moral hero represented by Pindar and Prodicus, would be a modification of the older tradition.

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δαιτό? άπο γλυκερής, ουκ αν ποτε πήματι

κύρσαι-

άλλ' δτε τις μοίρης τριτάτης προς μέτρον

ελαννοι

πίνων άβλεμέως, τότε δ' "Ύβριος α'ισα και "Ατης

γίνεται άργαλέ-η, κακά δ' άνθρώποισιν όπάζει.

10 αλλά πεπον, μετρον γάρ έχεις γλνκεροΐο ποτοίο,

στεΐχε παρά μνηστήν άλοχον, κοίμιζε δ'

εταίρους-

δείδια γάρ τριτάττης μοίρτης μελιηδέος οϊνου

πινομένης, μή σ' "Ύβρις ένί φρεσί θνμόν άέρστηι,

έσθλοΐς δέ ξενίοισι κακήν έπιθήσι τελευτήν.

15 άλλα πιθοΰ και παυε πολύν πότον.

5 suppl. West υπότροπος Peppmiiller: άποτρ- codd. 14 δέ Meineke: εν codd. 15 άλλα πιθοΰ Meineke: άλλ' απιθι codd.

2 1 Ath. 37a (post fr. 19)

και πάλιν

οίνος < > θνητοΐσι θέων πάρα δώρον άριστον

άγλαός- ώι πάσαι μεν έφαρμόζουσιν άοιδαί,

πάντες δ' όρχησμοί, πάσαι δ' έραταί φιλότητες.

πάσας δ' εκ κραδίης ανίας ανδρών άλαπάζει

5 πινόμενος κατά μετρον υπέρ μέτρον δέ χερείων.

let 5 cit. Clem Strom. 6.11.6 5 νπ€ρμ€τρος Clem.

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home from the feast, you wi l l never run into anything bad. But when someone drinks heavily and presses to the l imit of the third round, then Hybris and Ate take their unlovely turn, which brings trouble. Now, pal, you've had your ration of the sweet liquor, so go and join your wedded wife, and send your comrades to bed. With the third round of the honey-sweet wine being drunk, I 'm afraid of Hybris stirring up your spirits and bringing your good hospitality to a bad end. So do as I say, and stop the excess drinking."

2 1 Athenaeus, Scholars at Dinner (after fr. 19)

And again:

Wine is mortals' finest gift from the gods, glorious wine: every song harmonizes with it , every dance, every delightful love. And every pain it expels from men's hearts, so long as it is drunk in due measure; but beyond the measure, it is not so good.

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2 2 Ath. 36d (post fr. 20)

καϊ έξης περί άμετρου οίνου-

iv γάρ οι "Ατής τε και "Ύβριος α'ισ' <άμ'> όπηδει.

iv West: εκ codd. άμ' add. Naeke.

2 3 Schol. (Τ) II. 24.616b, "αϊ τ άμφ' Άχελώϊον"

τινές "αϊ τ άμφ' 'Αχελήσιον"- -ποταμός δε Λυδίας, έζ ού πληρούται ό "Τλλος· και 'ΐίρακλέα νοσήσαντα έπι των τόπων, άναδόντων αύτώι θερμά λουτρά τών ποταμών, τους παΐδας "Ύλλον καλέσαι και τον έξ Όμφάλης Άχε-λητα, ός Αυδών έβασ'ιλευσεν. ε'ισΐ δε και νύμφαι Άχελή-τιδες, ώς φησι ΤΙανΰασσις.

Schol. Αρ. Rhod. 4.1149/50

ΐΐανύασις δέ φησιν έν Αυδίαι τον 'ΐίρακλέα νοσήσαντα τυχεϊν Ίάσεως υπό "Τλλου του ποταμού, ός έστι της Αυδίας- διό και τούς δύο υιούς αυτού "Τλλους όνομασθή-ναι.

2 4 Steph. Byz. s.v. Ύρεμίλη

ή Λυκία eKaXetro ούτως, οι κατοικοϋντες Ύρεμιλεΐς. άπο Ύρεμίλου, ώς ΐΐανύασις-

ένθα δ' έναιε μέγας Ύρεμίλης και ρ ήγαγε κούρην,

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2 2 Athenaeus, Scholars at Dinner (after fr. 20)

And following that, about immoderate wine:

For with it the turn of Ate and Hybris comes along/

2 3 Scholiast on the Iliad, "the nymphs who dance about the Achelous"

Some read "about the Achelesius"; this is a river in Lydia, a tributary of the Hyllus, and (they say) that after Heracles fell sick in these parts, and the rivers provided him with warm bathing, he named his sons Hyllus, and the one born to Omphale Acheles—he became king of Lydia. There are also Achelesian nymphs, as Panyassis says.

Scholiast on Apollonius of Rhodes

Panyassis says that Heracles fell sick in Lydia and obtained therapy from the river Hyllus, which is in Lydia; and this is why his two sons were both named Hyllus.

2 4 Stephanus of Byzantium, Geographical Lexicon

Tremile: Lycia was so called. The inhabitants are Tremileis. The name is from Tremiles, as in Panyassis:

And there dwelt great Tremiles, and he married a maid, an

2 2 This line may have directly followed fragment 21.

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νύμφην 'Ω,γυγίην, ην ΐίρηξιδίκην καλέονσιν,

Σίβρωι έπ' άργνρέωι, ποταμώι πάρα δινήεντι-

τής δ' όλοοι παίδες Τλώος {αάνθος τε] ΐίίναρός

<τ έγένοντο>

5 και Κράγος, ος κρατέων πάσας Χη'ιζετ' άρούρας.

1 ΎρεμίΧης Meineke: τρεμνλ(ι)ος codd. ρ ήγαγε κονρην West: έγημε θύγατρα codd. 3 ~Ϊ.Ίρβει? 4 ita West: ξανθός ΤΙίναρός τε Salmasius.

2 5 Steph. Byz. s.v. Ασπίς

πόΧις Λιβύης . . . έστι και νήσος προς τήι Λνκίαι. εστί και νήσος άλλη μεταξύ Λεβέδου και Ύέω . . . έστι καϊ νήσος άλλη Ψύρων εγγύς, έστι και άλλη, ώς Κλέων 6 Συρακούσιος έν τώι περί των λιμένων, άδενδρος ούσα. έστι και πέραν Τίίσης, ώς ΤΙανύασις έν 'ΐΐρακλείας εν-δεκάτηι.

2 6 Clem. Protr. 2.36.2

ναι μήν και τον Λϊδωνέα ύπο 'ΐΐρακλέους τοξευθήναι "Ομηρος λέγει (II. 5.395), και τον Ήλέίον "Λιδην ΐΐανύασσις ιστορεί- ήδη δε και τήν "ΐΐραν τήν ζνγίαν ιστορεί ύπο του αυτού Ηρακλέους 6 αύτος ούτος ΐΐανύασις

έν Πύλωι ήμαθόεντι.

"Αιδην Matthews: Ανγέαν cod. (et schol.).

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Ogygian nymph, whom they call Praxidice, at the silvery Sibrus, beside that swirling river. And from her <were born> baleful sons, Tloos, Pinaros, and Cragus, who in his might plundered all the plowlands. 2 3

2 5 Stephanus of Byzantium, Geographical Lexicon

Aspis: a town in Libya. . . Also an island off Lycia. Also another island between Lebedos and Teos . . . Also another island near Psyra. Also another, as Cleon of Syracuse writes in his work On Harbors, a treeless one. Also one beyond Pisa,24 mentioned by Panyassis in the Heraclea, Book 11.

2 6 Clement, Protreptic

Aye, and Homer says that Aidoneus was shot by Heracles, and Panyassis records that the Elean Hades was; and this same Panyassis also records that Conjugal Hera was shot by the same Heracles

in sandy Pylos.

2 3 Tremileis represents a native tribal name that appears in Lycian inscriptions. The Sibrus or Sirbis is the Xanthus; the familiar name has intruded as a gloss in the next line. Tloos and Pinaros are the eponyms of the Lycian hill towns Tlos and Pinara, and Cragus of the mountain to the west of the Xanthus valley.

2 4 Presumed to be in southern Asia Minor.

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Arnob. Adv. nationes 4.25

Non ex uobis Panyassis unus est, qui ab Hercule Ditem patrem et reginam memorat sauciatam esse Iunonem?

2 7 Et. Gen. (A) s.v. μνθος

ή στάσις . . . και Πανύασσις·

δνγβάδιός ποτε μνθος |άλλα 8et μετεμέμβ<λ>ετο λαών,

αντί τον στάσις.

2 8 Apollod. Bibl. 3.14A

Ησίοδος δε (fr. 139) αυτόν Φοίνικος και Άλφεσιβοίας λέγει, Πανυασις δέ φησι θείαντος /βασιλέως Άσσυρίων, δς έ'σχε θνγατέρα Σμύρναν. αύτη κατά μήνιν Αφροδίτης (ού yap αντήν έτίμα) 'ίσχει του πατρός έρωτα, και σνν-έργον λαβονσα την τροφόν άγνοονντι τώι πατρί νύκτας δώδεκα συνευΐ'άσό'η. ό δε ώς ήισθετο, σπασάμενος ξίφος έδίωκεν αντήν, ή δε περικαταλαμβανομένη θεοΐς ηνξατο αφανής γενέσθαι, θεοί δέ κατοικτίραντες αντήν εις δέν-δρον μετήλλαξαν ο καλοΰσι σμνρναν. δεκαμηνιαίωι δέ ύστερον χρόνωι τού δένδρου ραγέντος γεννηθήναι τον λεγόμενον "Αδωνιν δν Αφροδίτη δια κάλλος έ'τι νήπιον κρνφα θεών εις λάρνακα κρνφασα ΤΙερσεφόνηι παρίστατο· εκείνη δέ ώς έθεάσατο, ουκ άπεδίδου. κρίσεως δέ επί Διός γενομένης εις τρεις μοίρας διηιρέθη 6 ένιαντός, καί μίαν μεν παρ* έαυτώι μένειν τον "Αδωνιν, μίαν δέ παρά

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Arnobius, Against the Heathens

Is Panyassis not one of you, who records that Hades and the queen Hera were wounded by Heracles?25

2 7 Etymologicum Genuinum

mythos [lit. words]: dissension . . . And in Panyassis:

Divided words once [. . . ] 2 6 of the peoples had repented,

that is, dissension.


But Hesiod says Adonis was the son of Phoenix and Alphesiboea, while Panyassis makes him the son of Theias, a king of Assyria, who had a daughter Smyrna. She, through the anger of Aphrodite (whom she failed to honor), conceived a desire for her father, and with her nurse as accomplice she lay with him for twelve nights without his realizing it. When he became aware of it, he drew a sword and chased her, and she as she was being overtaken prayed to the gods to disappear. They took pity on her and changed her into the tree called Smyrna (myrrh). Ten months later the tree split open, and the said Adonis was born from it. Because of his beauty Aphrodite concealed him from the gods, still a baby, in a chest, and placed it with Persephone; but when she saw him, she refused to give him back. An adjudication was made by Zeus, and the year was divided into three parts. He ordained that Adonis should stay by himself for one part, stay for one with

25 Compare Iliad 5.392-397. 2 6 Text corrupt and unintelligible.

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ΐίερσεφόνηι προσέταζε, τήν δε έτέραν παρ' Άφροδίτηι- ό δε 'Άδωνις ταύτηι προσένειμε και την ιδίαν μοΐραν. ύστερον δε θηρεύων Άδωνις ύπο σνος πληγείς απέθανε.

Cf. Philod. De pietate Β 7553 Obbink; schob Lyc. 829; Ant. Lib. 34.

2 9 Hesych. r/652

Ήο'ιην

τον "Αδωνιν. ΧΙανύασις.

3 0 Schol. (h *B) Ii. 1.591 = Et. Magn. s.v. βηλός

και 6 Τίαννασις δέ τά πέδιλα

βηλά

λέγει.

Θ Η Σ Η Ϊ Σ


Arist. Poet. 1451al9

διό πάντες έοίκασιν άμαρτάνειν οσοι των ποιητών

'ΐίρακληιδα, θησηίδα, και τά τοιαύτα ποιήματα πε-

ποιηκασιν ο'ιονται γαρ, έπεί εις ην 6 Ήρακλτ/s, ένα

και τον μνθον είναι προσήκειν.

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Persephone, and the other with Aphrodite. But Adonis gave Aphrodite his own time too. Later, while hunting, he was gored by a boar and died. 2 7

2 9 Hesychius, Lexicon

Eoies [He of the Dawn]: Adonis. Panyassis.

3 0 Scholiast on the Iliad; Etymologicum Magnum

And Panyassis calls sandals "platforms" [bêla).

THESEIS


Aristotle, Poetics

So all those poets appear to go wrong who have composed a Heracleis, a Theseis, and poems of that kind; they suppose that because Heracles was one person, it ought to be one myth.

2 7 It is not clear how much of the story stood in Panyassis, or in what context. Fragment 29 must belong with it.

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F R A G M E N T A

1 Plut. Thes. 28.1

ην γαρ 6 τής θησηΐδος ποιητής Αμαζόνων έπανάστασιν γέγραφΐ, θτ/crsî γαμοΰντι Φαίδραν τής Αντιόπης επιτιθεμένης και των μίτ' αυτής Αμαζόνων αμυνομένων και κτβίνοντος αϋτας 'ϊΐρακλέονς, πΐριφανως έοικί μύθωι και πλάσματι.

2 Schol. Pind. Ol. 3.50b

θήΧίίαν δέ άπ(. και χρυσοκέρων από ιστορίας- ό γαρ <τήν> θηση'ίδα γράφας τοιαύτην αυτήν <Χέγει>, και ΐΐ€ΐσανδρος ό Kaptpevç (fr. 3) και Φ€ρΐκύδης (fr. 71 Fowler).

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T H E S E I S

F R A G M E N T S

1 Plutarch, Life of Theseus

For the Amazon uprising that the poet of the Theseis has written of, in which, when Theseus was celebrating his wedding to Phaedra, Antiope attacked him and the Amazons with her gave support and Heracles killed them, obviously bears the marks of a mythical fiction.28

2 Scholiast on Pindar, Olympians

He made it [the Cerynian Hind] female and gold-horned on the basis of legend; for the author of the Theseis describes it like that, as do Pisander of Camirus and Pherecydes.

2 8 Antiope was an Amazon whom Theseus had previously brought to Athens and married. See Apollodorus, epitome 1.16-17.

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T E S T I M O N I A

Clem. Strom. 1.131.8

Σιμωνίδης μ,εν ovv κατά Άρχίλοχον φέρΐται, Καλλί-νος Se πρΐσβντΐρος ον μακρώι . . . Είίμηλος Se ό Κορίνθιος πρεσβύτερος ών έπιβεβληκέναι Άρχίαι τώι Σνρακούσας κτισαντι.

I d . 6.26.7

τα δ« Ησιόδου μετήλλαξαν ei? πεζον λόγον καϊ ώς ιδια εξήνεγκαν Είίμηλός τε και Άκουσίλαος οι ιστοριογράφοι.

Euseb. Chron.

Ol. 5.1: Eumelus poeta, qui Bugoniam et Europiam . . · agnoscitur.

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T E S T I M O N I A


Simonides is said to have been contemporary with Archilochus, and Callinus a little o l d e r . . . and Eumelus of Corinth, who was older, to have overlapped with Archias the founder of Syracuse.


And Hesiod s poetry was turned into prose and brought out as their own work by the historians Eumelus and Acusilaus.

Eusebius, Chronicle

Ol. 5.1 (760/759): the poet Eumelus, who composed the Bougonia and Europia, is recognized.

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A N T I Q U A R I A N E P I C S

Ol. 9.1: Eumelus Corinthius uersificator agnoscitur et Sibylla Erythraea.

Cf. Cyrill. Contra Mian. 1.12 (Patrol. Gr. lxxvi. 520D).

Schol. Pind. Ol. 13.31a, "έν δέ Μοΐσ άδνπνοος"

τοντο δέ δια τον Ένμηλον Οντα Κορίνθιον και γράφαν-

τα Νόστον των Ελλήνων.

Ένμηλον Gyraldus: Ευμολπον codd.

Paus. 4.4.1

έπΙ δε Φίντα τον Χνβότα ττρώτον Μίσσήνιοι τότε τώι Άπόλλωνι ες Δήλον θνσίαν καϊ ανδρών χορόν άπο-

στέλλονσι- το δέ σφισιν άισμα προσόδιον ες τον θίόν

έδίδαξεν Ένμηλος, εΐναί τε ως αληθώς Ένμηλον νομί

ζεται, μόνα τα έπη ταύτα.

Cf. Paus. 4.33.2 (PMG 696), 5.19.10.

F R A G M E N T S

1. (Εύμ,ήλοιι ή Άρκτίνον) Τιτανομαχία


ό δέ την Τι[τανο]μαχίαν γρά[φας έζ] Αιθέρος φη[σίν (sc.

τά πάντα).

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E U M E L U S

Ol. 9.1 (744/3): Eumelus the Corinthian poet is recognized, and the Erythraean Sibyl.

Cyril of Alexandria also dates Eumelus to the ninth Olympiad.

Scholiast on Pindar, Olympians, "Among them (the Corinthians) the sweet-breathed Muse blooms"

He says this because of Eumelus, who was a Corinthian and wrote The Return of the Greeks.


I n the time of Sybotas' son Phintas the Messenians first sent a sacrifice and men s chorus to Delos for Apollo; their processional song for the god was produced by Eumelus, and this poem alone is thought to be genuinely by Eumelus.1

F R A G M E N T S

1. Eumelus or Arctinus, Titanomachy


Whereas the author of the Titanomachy says that everything came from Aither.

1 Pausanias later quotes a fragment of the processional; see the Loeb Greek Lyric, ii.290.

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ANTIQUARIAN EPICS

Epimerismi Hornerici a 313 Dyck (from Methodius)

ακμών . . . οι δε "Ακμονα τον αιθέρα· Αιθέρος δε υιός Ουρανός, ώς ό την Ύιτανομαχίαν γράφας, ό δέ αίθήρ ακάματος, έπέί και τό πυρ άκάματον.

2 Lydus De mensihus 4.71

Έινμτρ\ος δέ ό Κορίνθιος τον Αία έν ΤΎ)Ι καθ' ημάς Ανδίαι Τΐχθήναι βονλεται.

3 Schol. Αρ. Rhod. 1.1165c

Εύμ,τ/λοϊ δέ έν τήι Ύιτανομαχίαι τον Αίγαίωνα Ττ)ς και Πόντου φηο~ϊ ττάΐδα, κατοικονντα δέ έν τηι θα\άσσ~ηι τοις Ύιτάσι σνμμαχέίν.

Virg. Aen. 10.565

Aegaeon qualis, centum cui bracchia dicunt I centenasque manus, quinquaginta oribus ignem I pectoribusque arsisse, Iouis cum fulmina contra I tot paribus streperet clipeis, tot stringeret ensis.

Servius auctus ad Aen. 6.287, "centumgeminus Briareus"

Qui ut nonnulli tradunt pro diis aduersus Gigantes bella gessit; ut uero alii adflrmant, contra deos pugnauit, eo maxime tempore quo inter Iouem et Saturnum de caelesti regno

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E U M E L U S

Homeric Parsings (from Methodius)

Others understand Akmon as the air (aither), Ouranos being Aither's son according to the author of the Titanomachy; the air is tireless (akamatos), because fire is . 2

2 Lydus, On the Months

Eumelus of Corinth would have it that Zeus was born in the country that is now Lydia. 3


Eumelus in the Titanomachy says that Aigaion was the son of Earth and Sea, lived in the sea, and fought on the side of the Titans. 4

Virgil, Aeneid

Like Aigaion, who they say had a hundred arms and a hundred hands and blazed fire from fifty mouths and in fifty breasts, when he raged against Jupiter's thunderbolt with the same number of matching shields and bared the same number of swords.

Servius auctus on the Aeneid, "centuplet Briareus"

Who, as some record, waged war on the gods' behalf against the Giants; but as others affirm, he fought against the gods, above all on the occasion when Jupiter and Saturn were con-

2 The author is reporting explanations of why some poets called Ouranos (Heaven) the son of Akmon. 3 Probably on Mt. Sipylos; see Aristides, Orations 17.3, 18.2, 21.3.

4 Compare Antimachus, fr. 14 Matthews.

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certamen fuit, unde eum a Ioue fulmine ad inferos tradunt esse trusum.

I d . ad Aen. 10.565

Alii hunc ex Terra et Ponto natum dicunt, qui habuit Coeum (Cottum Thilo) et Gygen fratres. Hie contra Titanas Ioui ad-fuisse dicitur, uel ut quidam uolunt Saturno.

4 * Serv. ad Aen. 6.580 (de Titanomachia)

De his autem solus Sol abstinuisse narratur ab iniuria numinum, unde et caelum meruit.

5 * Hesych. ι 387

"Ιθατ 6 των Ύιτήνων κήρυξ, ΐΐρομηθευς. τινές "Ιθαξ.

6* Apollod. Bibl. 1.2.1

μεθ' ών Ζεύς τον προς Κρόνον καϊ Τιτάνας έξήνεγκε πόλεμον. μαχόμενων δέ αυτών ένιαυτούς δέκα ή Γη τώι Αιι έχρησε την ν'ικην, τους καταταρταρωθέντας αν έχηι συμμάχους- 6 δέ την φρουρούσαν αυτών τα δεσμά Κάμπην άττοκτε'ινας έλυσε, και Κύκλωπες τότε Αιι μέν διδόασι βροντήν και άστραπήν και κεραυνόν, ΠλούτωΜ δέ κννέην, Ποσειδώνι δέ τρίαιναν. οΐ δέ τούτοις όπ-

226

EUMELUS

testing for the kingship of heaven. Hence they record that he was driven down by Jupiter to the underworld with a thunderbolt. Others say he was born from Earth and Sea, and had Coeus5

and Gyges as his brothers. He is said to have assisted Jupiter against the Titans; or as some would have it, to have assisted Saturn.

4 * Servius on the Aeneid

Of these (the Titans), the Sun god alone6 is related to have abstained from assaulting the gods; hence he earned a place in heaven.

5 * Hesychius, Lexicon

Ithas: the Titans' herald, Prometheus. Some write "Ithax."

6* Apollodorus, The Library With them [his brothers and sisters] Zeus unleashed the war against Kronos and the Titans. When they had been fighting for ten years, Ge prophesied to Zeus that he would be victorious if he had those who had been consigned to Tartarus7 as his allies; so he killed their prison warder Kampe (Worm) and freed them. Then the Cyclopes gave thunder, lightning, and the thunderbolt to Zeus, the cap of invisibility to Pluto, and the trident to Poseidon. Armed with this equipment they

5 Thilo emends to "Cottus" to accord with Hesiod and other sources. Coeus was a Titan, the father of Leto.

6 The Titan Hyperion may be meant. In Hesiod he is the father of Helios, but the name often stands for the sun.

7 The Cyclopes and Hundred-Handers.

227


Xwr^eVres Kparovcn Tndptiip, KCU KaOeiptjavre'S airoix; ep

TS>L Taprdpon, rem? 'EKcu-dyxetpas Kario-TTjaav <£vXaKa?.

avrot Se 8ia.K\r)povvTai irepl rr js dpxrjs" KCU kayxdpei

Zevs peV rrtp iv ovpavSti, Swao-re'cav, HocreiScov 8k TTJP ip

0a\do~<rni, Tlkovrcov 8k TJJP ip "AiSou.

7* A p o l l o d . Bibl. 1.2.3

Ta7rerov Se KCU 'Acria? "ArXas, 6s ex^' rols aipots rov

ovpapop, KCU Tlpopr)8ev<; KCU 'ETnp'qdevs, Kal Mevoirtos,

ov Kepavvojcras eV r r j i nrapouaxiat, Zevs Karerapra-

piocrev.

8 A t h . 22c

EvprjXos Se 6 K o p i v ^ i o s lT} 'ApKTtvoSj TOV A i a opxov-

pevop TTOV irapdyti keyojp-

pecrcroicrtv 8' copxeiro Trarrjp dvhp5>v re 0ewv re.

9 P h i l o d . De pfetote B 5731 O b b i n k

KCU rets 'Ap7rvtas Ta pT/[Xa c^vXaTTeiv 'AKO[UCTI]XCIOS'

(fr. 10 Fowler) , 'Empet>[i]ST)s 8k (fr. 9 F.) KCU TOVTO KCU r d s

avrd? elpcu reus 'Eo-irfplaw 6 Se r r ) i ' Ti<ra>i 'opaxia. ! '

<ypdi//as cj>7)o-lp rd> pkv prjka <f>vkdr[T€ip . . .

8 The division of the universe by lot, also referred to in Iliad 15.187-192, is an old Babylonian motif; see M. L . West, The East Face of Helicon (Oxford, 1997), 109-110. The poet perhaps lo-

228

EUMELUS

overcame the Titans, imprisoned them in Tartarus, and set the Hundred-Handers to be their warders. They themselves cast lots for government, and Zeus got power in heaven, Poseidon in the sea, and Pluto in the underworld.8

7* Apollodorus, The Library

Iapetos' sons by Asia were Atlas, who holds the heaven on his shoulders, Prometheus and Epimetheus, and Menoitios, whom Zeus thunderbolted in the battle with the Titans and consigned to Tartarus.9


Eumelus of Corinth 1 0 portrays Zeus as dancing, when he says

And in their midst danced the father of gods and men.


And Acusilaus says the Harpies guarded the (golden) apples; Epimenides agrees, while identifying them with the Hesper-ides. The author of the Titanomachy says the apples were guarded by [ . . .

cated the event at Mekone, as does Callimachus, fr. 119. Mekone, often identified with Sicyon, was the place where according to Hesiod (Theogony 535-557) gods and mortals parted and determined their respective portions.

9 Compare Hesiod, Theogony 509-516. 1 0 One manuscript adds in the margin "or Arctinus." The frag

ment probably refers to celebrations following the defeat of the Titans: compare Diodorus, Histories 6.4; Dionysius of Halicarnas-sus, Roman Antiquities 7.72.7; Tibullus 2.5.9; Seneca, Agamemnon 333.

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1 0 Ath. 470b

θεόλντος δε εν δεντερωι "Ωρών (FGrHist 478 F 1) επί λέβητας φησιν αυτόν διαττλεύσαι, τούτο -πρώτον απόντος τον την Τιτανομαχίας ττοιήσαντοϊ.

1 1 Schol. (Τ) II. 23.295b

και ό την Ύιτανομαχίαν Si γράφας δύο αρρενάς φησιν Ηλίου και δύο θηλείας.

Hyg. Fab. 183 (equorum Solis et Horarum nomina)

Eo<u>s: per hunc caelum uerti solet. Aeth{i}ops: quasi flam-meus est, qui coquit fruges. H i funales sunt mares; feminae iugariae, Bronte, quae nos tonitrua appellamus, Steropeque, quae fulgitrua. Huic rei auctor est Eumelus Corinthius.

1 2 Schol. Ap. Rhod. 1.554, "Χείρων Φιλλυρίδτ/ς"

ό δε την Γιγαντομαχίαν ποιήσας φησιν ότι Κρόνος μεταμορφωθείς εις ΐππον έμίγη Φιλύραι τήι Ωκεανού, διόπερ και ίπποκεντανρος έγεννήθη Χείρων. τούτον δε γυνή Χαρικλώ.

Cf. Pherec. fr. 50 F; Αρ. Rhod. 2.1231-1241; Apollod. Bibl. 1.2.4.

1 3 Clem. Strom. 1.73.3

ό δε Βηρύτιο? "Έρμιππος Χείρωνα τον Κένταυρον σοφον

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Theolytus in Book 2 of his Annals says that the Sun sails across (Oceanus) on a cauldron, the first to say this being the author of the Titanomachy.


The author of the Titanomachy likewise says that the Suns horses were two males and two females.

Hyginus, Legends, on the names of the Sun s horses

Eous; through him the sky revolves. Aethops: more or less "flaming," the one that ripens produce. These trace horses are males; the yoke pair are females, Bronte, that we call thunder, and Sterope, that we call lightning. The source for this is Eumelus of Corinth.

1 2 Scholiast on Apollonius of Rhodes

The author of the Gigantomachy11 says that Kronos changed into a horse when he made love to the Oceanid Philyra, which is why Chiron was born a horse-centaur. His wife was Chariklo.


Hermippus of Beirut calls the centaur Chiron wise. Referring

1 1 Assumed to be an error for Titanomachy.

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καλεί- έφ' ού και ό την Ύιτανομαχίαν γράφας φησίν ώς πρώτος ούτος

εις τε δικαιοσύνην θνητών γένος ήγαγε δείξας όρκους και θυσίας ιλαράς και σχτηματ

'Ολύμπου.

1 4 Ath. 277d

οίδα οτι 6 την Τιτανομαχίας Troirjcras, εϊτ' Εύμηλός έστιν ο Κορίνθιος ή Άρκτΐνος τ) όστις δήποτε χαίρει ονομαζόμενος, εν τώι δευτερωι ούτως εϊρ-ηκεν

εν δ' αύτήι πλωτοί χρνσώπιδες ίχθύες ελλοί νηχοντες παίζουσι δι ύδατος άμβροσίοιο.

έχαιρε δε Σοφοκλής τώι έπικώι κύκλωι, ώς και όλα δράματα ποιήσαι κατακολουθών τήι έν τούτωι μνθο-ποιίαι.

2. Κορινθιακά

1 5 Schol. Αρ. Rhod. 4.1212-1214b

'Εφύρα ή Κόρινθος, από Εφύρας τ-ης 'Επιμτηθέως θυ-γατρός- Εύμ-ηλος δέ από Εφύρας τής 'ίΐκεανού και Ύτηθύος, γυναικός δέ γενομένης 'Επιμηθέως.

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to him the author of the Titanomachy too says that he first

led the human race to righteousness by instructing them in oath-taking and cheerful sacrifices and the patterns of O l y m p u s . 1 2

1 4 Athenaeus, Scholars at Dinner13

I know that the author of the Titanomachy, whether it is Eumelus of Corinth or Arctinus or however he likes to be identified, has said this in Book 2:

A n d in i t 1 4 there float fish with golden scales, that swim and sport through the ambrosial water.

Sophocles liked the Epic Cycle, to the extent of composing whole plays in accordance with the mythology it contains.

2. Corinthiaca


"Ephyra" is Corinth, from Ephyra the daughter of Epime-theus; Eumelus, however, says from Ephyra the daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, who became Epimetheus' wife . 1 5

12 Olympus here must stand for heaven. The reference will be to astronomical or meteorological lore. Chiron was known in myth as an educator of heroes. A didactic poem ascribed to Hesiod, the Precepts of Chiron, purported to embody his teaching to Achilles.

1 3 The question under discussion is where Sophocles found the word €\ \ds "scaly" that he applies to fish in Ajax 1297.

1 4 Probably a lake or pool. 15 Compare Hyginus, Legends 275.6.

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ή δέ Κορινθία χώρα μοίρα ούσα τής Άργείας από Κορίνθου το όνομα έσχηκε. Διος δέ είναι Κόρινθον ούδένα οιδα απόντα πω σπουδήι πλήν Κορινθίων τών πολλών, έπεί Έ,ύμηλός γε ό Άμφιλύτου τών Βακχιάδων καλουμένων, ος και τα έπη λέγεται ποιήσαι, φησίν έν τήι Κορινθίαι ο~υγγραφήι—ei δή Έώμήλου γε ή συγγραφή—'Εφύραν 'Ω,κεανού θυγατέρα οίκήσαι πρώτον έν τήι γήι ταύτηι. Μαραθώνα δέ κτλ. (fr. 19).

1 6 * Favorin. Corinth. 11

(τής πόλεως) υπέρ ής τους δύο θεούς φασιν έρίσαι, Ποσειδώνα και τον "Ηλιον . . . έρίσαντε δέ και τήν δίαιταν έπιτρέφαντε τρίτωι θεώι πρεσβυτέρωι, ου

πλείσται μέν κεφαλαί, πλεΐσται δέ re χείρες,

τούτωι τήν δίαιταν έπιτρέφαντες αμφότεροι τήνδε τήν πάλιν και τήν χώραν εχουσιν.

Paus. 2.1.6

λέγουσι δέ καί οί Κορίνθιοι Ποσειδώνα έλθεΐν 'ΐίλίωι περί τής γής ες άμφισβήτησιν, Βριάρεων δέ διαλλακτήν γενέσθαι σφίσιν, Ίσθμόν μέν καί όσα ταύτηι δικάσαντα είναι Ποσειδώνος, τήν δέ ακραν Ήλίωι δόντα τήν υπέρ τής πόλεως. Cf. 2.4.6.

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The Corinthian territory, being a part of the Argive, has its name from Korinthos. That he was a son of Zeus, I do not know that anyone has stated seriously apart from most of the Corinthians; for Eumelus the son of Amphilytus, one of the so-called Bacchiadai, and the reputed author of the poetry, says in the Corinthian History—if it is by Eumelus—that Ephyra, a daughter of Oceanus, first dwelt in this land; and that subsequently Marathon, etc. (see fr. 19).

1 6 * Favorinus, Corinthian Oration

(The city) over which they say two gods contested, Poseidon and Helios . . . and after referring their dispute for arbitration to a third, more senior god, who had

very many heads, and very many arms, 1 6

they both occupy this city and territory.


The Corinthians too say that Poseidon got into dispute with Helios over the land, and that Briareos acted as their arbitrator, who decreed that the Isthmus and that whole area should belong to Poseidon, but gave Helios the heights above the city.

1 6 Anonymous verse attributed to Eumelus by Wilamowitz.

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1 7 Schol. Pind. 01. 13.74f (exscripsit schol. Eur. Med. 9)

δια τ'ι Μήδειας (μνημόνευσε»; ότι ή Κόρινθος ττατρώιον αυτής κτήμα γέγονε τούτωι τώι λόγιοι· . . . διδάσκει δε τούτο Εύμηλός τις ποιητής ιστορικός ειπών

άλλ' οτε δή Αίήτης και 'Αλωεύς εζεγένοντο

'ϊίελίον τε και Αντιόπης, τότε δ' άνδιχα χώρην

δάσσατο παισιν εοΐς 'Τπερίονος άγλαός υιός-

ην μεν έχ' Ασωπός, ταύτην πόρε δίωι 'Αλωεΐ-

5 ην δ' 'Έ,φύρη κτεάτισσ', Αίήτηι δώκεν άπασαν.

Α'ιήτης δ' άρ' εκών Βούνωι παρέδωκε φυλάσσειν,

εις ό κεν αυτός ϊκοιτ' ή' εξ αΰτοϊό τις άλλος,

ή παις ή' νίωνός- ο δ' ϊκετο Κολχίδα γαϊαν.

Βοννος δε Έρμου και νύμφης τινός παις. Cf. Tzetz. in Lyc. 174.

1 δή West: δ' codd.

Paus. 2.3.10

Έιύμηλος δε "ΐίλιον έφη δούναι τήν χώραν 'Αλωεΐ μεν τήν Ασωπίαν, Αίήτηι δε τήν Έφυραίαν. και Αίήτην άπιόντα ες Κόλχους παρακαταθέσθαι Βούνωι τήν γήν, Βούνον δε Τίρμού και Άλκιδαμείας είναι.

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1 7 Scholiast on Pindar, Olympians

Why does he mention Medea? Because Corinth was her ancestral possession according to this account . . . And this we learn from Eumelus, a historical poet, who says:

But when Aietes and Aloeus were born from Helios and Antiope, then Hyperion s glorious son divided the country in two between his sons. The Asopus riverland he awarded to noble Aloeus, while all that Ephyra had settled he gave to Aietes. Aietes chose to entrust it to Bounos, until such time as he himself should return, or someone of his blood, a child or grandchild, and he went off to the Colchian land. 1 7

Bounos was the child of Hermes and a nymph.1 8


Eumelus said that Helios gave Aloeus the Asopus land and Aietes the Ephyraean; and that Aietes when he went away to Colchis entrusted the country to Bounos, Bounos being the child of Hermes and Alcidamea.

l 7 Another scholium on the same passage (74d) adds that Aietes went to Colchis because of an oracle that instructed him to found there a city named after himself, that is, Aia.

is Bounos is a stopgap figure derived from Hera's local cult title Bounaia (Pausanias 2.4.7).

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1 8 pergit Paus.

και eVei Boivos ετΐλΐάτησεν, όντως 'Έ,πωπία τον Άλωέως και την 'Έιφνραίων σχάν αρχήν.

1 9 Paus. 2.1.1 (post fr. 15)

Μαραθώνα δε ύστερον τον Έπωπέως τον Άλωεως τον Ήλιου, φενγοντα άνομίαν και νβριν τον πατρός, es τα παραθαλάσσια μΐτοικήσαι τής Αττικής- αποθανόντος δε Έπωπέως άφικόμενον es Πελοπόννησον και την αρχήν διανύμαντα τοις παισίν, αυτόν ε'? την Άττικήν ανθις άναχωρήσαι. καϊ άπό μεν %ικνωνος την Άσωπίαν, από δ* Κορίνθου τήν Έφυραίαν μετονομασ#ήναι.

2 0 Paus. 2.3.10 (post fr. 17/18)

Κορίνοου δε ύστερον τον Μαραθώνος ούδενα νποΧειπο-μένον παΐδα, τονς Κορινθίονς Μήδειαν μεταπεμφαμίνονς έζ Ίωλκον παραδονναί ο'ι τήν αρχήν.

Schol. Eur. Med. 9 (= 19)

ότι δε /3εβασίλευκε τής Κορίνθου ή Μήδεια, Eupr^os ιστορεί και Χιμωνίδτ/s (PMG 545).

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1 8 Pausanias, Description of Greece (continued from fr. 17)

And that when Bounos died, Aloeus' son Epopeus acquired power over the Ephyraeans too.


And that subsequently Marathon, son of Epopeus, son of Aloeus the son of Helios, to escape his fathers lawlessness and violence, migrated to the coastal region of Attica; and that after Epopeus' death he went to the Peloponnese and divided his realm between his sons, and himself returned to Attica; and that Sikyon gave his name to the Asopus land, and Korinthos gave his to Ephyraea.19


And that subsequently, as Marathon's son Korinthos left no child, the Corinthians sent for Medea from Iolcus and handed over the sovereignty to her.

Scholiast on Euripides, Medea

That Medea was queen of Corinth, Eumelus and Simonides record.

1 9 In other words the historical cities of Sicyon and Corinth got their names from the two sons of Marathon.

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2 1 Schol. Ap. Rhod. 3.1354-1356a, "οι δ' ήδη κατά

τιάσαν άνασταχύεσκον άρονραν I γηγενείς· φρΐξεν

δέ περί στιβαροΐς σακέεσσι I δούρασί τ άμφιγύοις

κορύθεσσί τε λαμπομένηισιν I 'Αρηος τέμενος φθει-

σιμβρότον"

ούτος καί οί έξης στίχοι είλημμένοι είσί παρ' Εύμήλου, παρ' ώι φησι Μήδεια προς "ΐδμονα- < >.

2 2 * Favorin. Corinth. 14

και γάρ τοι και αγώνα πρώτον έντανθοϊ τεθήναί φασιν ύπο των δύο θεών, και νικήσαι Κάστορα μεν στάδιον, Κάλαϊν δέ δίαυλος . . . 'Ορφεύς κιθάραι, 'Άρακλής πάμμαχον, πνγμήν Πολυδεύκης, πάλης Πηλεύ?, δίσκον Τελαμώς, ένόπλιον &ησεύς. ετέθη δέ και ίππων άγων, και ένίκα κέλητι μεν Φαέθων, τεθρίππωι δέ Νηλεύς. έγένετο δέ και νεών άμιλλα, και 'Αργώ ένίκα. και μετά ταύτα ούκ έπλενσεν, άλλ' αυτήν άνέθηκεν 6 Ιάσων ενταύθα τώι ΤΙοσειδώνι.

2 0 These are Apollonius' lines about the growth of warriors from the earth after Jason sowed the dragon's teeth. The scholiast should not be understood to mean that they were taken verbatim from Eumelus, but that some lines in Eumelus, spoken by Medea to the seer Idmon, appeared to be the model. The actual quotation has fallen out, but it no doubt used the "bristling" image, for which a Sophoclean parallel is also adduced.

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2 1 Scholiast on Apollonius of Rhodes, "But now the earthborn ones were springing up all over the plowland; the murderous War god's acre bristled with stout shields and two-edged spears and shining helmets . " 2 0

This and the following lines are taken from Eumelus, in whom Medea says to Idmon: <" ">.

2 2 * Favorinus, Corinthian Oration

For indeed they say that games were first established here by the two gods, 2 1 and that the victors were

Castor in the single straight race, Calais in the double 2 2 . . .

Orpheus with the lyre, Heracles as pancratiast, in the boxing Polydeuces, in the wrestling Peleus, with the discus Telamon, in the race in armor Theseus. A competition for horses was also arranged, and Phaethon won in the saddle, and Neleus with the four-horse chariot. There was also a boat race, and the Argo won it. And after that it sailed no more: Jason dedicated it there to Poseidon. 2 3

2 1 Poseidon and Helios. This provides a mythical origin for the Isthmian Games, which were in honor of Poseidon.

2 2 This looks like a verse fragment. Apart from Phaethon, the son of Helios, all the victors named were Argonauts. They had brought Medea to Corinth.

2 3 The Argo's voyage to the Isthmus and its dedication there by Jason are mentioned also by Diodorus 4.53.2; Aristides, Oration 46.29; Apollodorus, Library 1.9.27.

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23 Paus. 2.3.11 (post fr. 20)

βασιλΐύειν μέν δή δι' αυτήν Ιάσονα έν Κορίνθωι. Μηδίίαι δέ παΐδας μεν γίνεσθαι, το δέ άΐί τικτόμίνον κατακρύπτΐΐν αυτήν ές το ιερόν φέρουσαν τής "Upas, κατακρΰπτειν Sè αθανάτους έσεσθαι νομίζουσαν. τέλος Sè αυτήν τΐ μαθειν ώς ήμαρτήκοί τής ελπίδος, καί άμα υπό του Ιάσονος φωραθείσαν—ού γαρ αυτόν έχειν δεομένηι συγγνώμην, αποπλέοντα <Sè> ές Ίωλκόν οϊχε-σθαι—τούτων δτ) ένεκα άπελθέίν και ΜήΒειαν, παρα-δοΰσαν %ισυφωι τήν αρχήν, τάδε μέν οΰτως έχοντα έπελεξάμτην.

24 Paus. 2.2.2

<τάφους 8έ> Σίσυφου και Νηλέως—και γαρ Νηλέα άφίκόμΐνον ές Κόρινθον νόσωι τελευτήσαί φασι και περί τον ίσθμόν ταφήναι—ουκ αν οϊδ' eî ζητοίη τις, έπι-λεξάμενος τά Κύμήλου. Νηλέως μέν γαρ ού8έ Νέστορι ίπιδίίχοήναι τό μνήμα ΰπό του Χισύφου φησί, χρήναι γαρ άγνωστον τοις πάσιν ομοίως είναι- Σίσυφον 8έ ταφήναι μέν έν τώι ίσθμώι, τον δέ οι τάφον και των έφ' αΰτοΰ Κορινθίων ολίγους είναι τούς είδότας.

(Χισΰφον) φ-ησί Bekker: φασί codd.

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23 Pausanias, Description of Greece (continued from fr. 20)

So because of her Jason was king at Corinth. Medea had children, but as each one was born she would take it into the shrine of Hera and bury it, in the belief that they would be made immortal. But in the end she realized that her hopes were in vain, and she was detected by Jason, who had no sympathy with her pleas but sailed off back to Iolcus; so Medea departed too, transferring the sovereignty to Sisyphus. That is the story as I have read i t . 2 4


As for tombs of Sisyphus and Neleus—for Neleus too they say came to Corinth and died there of an illness, and was buried at the Isthmus—I do not know if one should look for them, after my reading of Eumelus. For he says that Neleus' tomb was not even shown to Nestor by Sisyphus, as it had to be unknown to his sons as to everyone else; and that Sisyphus was buried in the Isthmus, but his tomb was known to few of the Corinthians even of his own time.

2 4 The story of Medea's children's death and her separation from Jason takes a different form from that familiar from Euripides' Medea. The underlying fact is a Corinthian cult of the dead children, whose tomb was situated in the precinct of Hera. See Euripides, Medea 1378-1383; Parmeniscus in schol. Eur. Medea 264; Pausanias 2.3.7; M. P. Nilsson, Griechische Feste von religiöser Bedeutung (Leipzig, 1906), 57-60. Probably the dead children of the cult were originally sons of a local goddess Medea who had no connection with the Medea of the Argonautic legend. The coincidence of name then led to Aietes' and Jason's introduction into the Corinthian story.

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2 5 Schol. Ap. Rhod. 1.146-149a

Γλαύκου δέ αυτήν (Ledam) τον Σίσυφου είναι πατρός εν Κορινθιακοί*: λέγει Εύμηλος και Παςτειδυίας μητρός, ίστορών ότι των ίππων άπολομένων ήλθεν εις Λακεδαίμονα ό Γλαύκος και έκεϊ έμίγη ΐΐαντειδνίαι- ήν ύστερον γήμασθαι θεστίωι φασϊ (v.l. φησϊ) <καϊ τεκέίν> τήν Αήδαν, γόνωι μέν ούσας Γλαύκου, λόγωι δέ Θεστιου.

3. Εΰρωπία


ό δε [τήν Εν]ρώπειαν γράφα[ς] και αυτής τον α[ύ]τός έρασθήνα[ί] φησιν, και δια τ[ό] μή ΰπομείνα[ι μι]χθήναι Αιϊ αντ[όν] αυτήν [τον] Αία [παίρηιρήσ^αι

2 7 Schol. (D) Ii. 6.131

Αιόννσος ό Αιός και Σεμέλης παις, έν Κνβέλοις της Φρνγίας υπό τής 'Ρέας τνχών καθαρμών και διδαχθείς τάς τελετάς και λαβών πάσαν παρά της θεού τήν δια-σκενήν, άνά πάσαν έφέρετο τήν γήν χορεύων και τελετάς ποιούμενος, και τιμώς τνγχάνων προηγείτο πάντων τών ανθρώπων, παραγενόμενον δέ αυτός εις τής θράικην Λυκούργος ό Δρύαςτος, λνπήσας Ήρας μίσει, μνωπι άπελαύνει τής γης, και καθάπτεται τών τούτου τιθηνών ετύγχαναν γάρ αύτώι σννοργιάζονσαι· θεηλάτωι δέ έλαν-νόμενος μάστιγι τον θεόν έσπευδε τιμωρήσασθαι. 6 δε ύπό δέους εις τήν θάλασσαν καταδύνει, και ύπό Θέτιδος νπολαμβάνεται και Ευρυνόμης, ό ούν Λυκούργος ούκ

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But Eumelus in the Corinthiaca says that Leda's father was Glaucus the son of Sisyphus and her mother Panteidyia; he records that when his horses were missing Glaucus went to Lacedaemon, and there made love to Panteidyia, who they say [variant: he says] subsequently married Thestius <and bore> Leda, so that she was biologically the child of Glaucus, though officially of Thestius.

3. Europia


The author of the Europia says that the same god fell in love with her [Europa?] too, and that because she would not submit to intercourse with Zeus, Zeus himself abducted her.


Dionysus the son of Zeus and Semele, having received purification from Rhea at Mt. Kybela in Phrygia and been taught the rites and acquired all the paraphernalia from the goddess, roamed all over the world, dancing and celebrating the rites and receiving honors, and all the people followed him. But when he came to Thrace, Lycurgus the son of Dryas, made vexatious by Hera's hatred, tried to drive him out of the country with an ox-goad, and assaulted his nurses, who were participating in his revels; driven on by a divine scourge, he was set on punishing the god. Dionysus plunged into the sea in his fear, and was taken in by Thetis and Eurynome. Well,

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άμισθϊ δυσσεβήσας έδωκε τήν έζ ανθρώπων δίκην άφ-ηιρέθη γαρ προς του Αιός τους οφθαλμούς, της ιστορίας πολλοί έμνήσθησαν, προηγουμένως δε ό την Έ,ύρωπίαν πεποιηκώς Έ,ύμηλος.

28 Clem. Strom. 1.164.3

άλλα και 6 την Έιύρωπίαν ποιήσας ιστορεί το έν Αελφοΐς άγαλμα Απόλλωνος κίονα είναι δια τώνδε-

όφρα θεώι δεκάτην άκροθίνιά τε κρεμάσαιμεν σταθμών εκ ζαθεων και κίονος ύφηλοΐο.

29 Schol. Αρ. Rhod. 2.946-954c, "Σινώπην I θυγατέρ' Ασωποΐο"

πόλις τού ΙΙόντου ή Σινώπη, ώνομασμένη άπό της Ασωπού θυγατρός Σινώπης, ην άρπάσας Απόλλων άπό 'Ύρίας έκόμισεν εις ϊϊόντον . . . εν δε τοις Όρφικοΐς (fr. 45 Kern) "Αρεως και Αίγίνης γενεαλογεϊται, κατά δε τινας "Αρεως και ΤΙαρνάσσης, κατ Έώμηλον και Άριστοτέλην (fr. 581) Ασωπού.

3 0 Paus. 9.5.8

ό δε τά έπη τά ες Έ,ύρώπην ποιήσας φησίν Άμφίονα χρήσασθαι λύραι πρώτον, Ερμού διδάξαντος- πεποίηκε δέ και <τά περί> λίθων και θηρίων, ότι και ταύτα άιδων ήγε.


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E U M E L U S

Lycurgus paid for his impiety with mortal punishment: he was deprived of his eyesight by Zeus. Many authors refer to the story, and in the first instance Eumelus, the author of the Europia.


The author of the Europia, too, records that Apollo's image at Delphi was a pillar, in these verses:

So that we might hang up for the god a tithe and first fruits from his holy steading and tall pillar.

29 Scholiast on Apollonius of Rhodes, "Sinope, daughter of Asopus"

Sinope is a Pontic town, named after Asopus' daughter Sinope, whom Apollo carried off from Hyria and took to the Black Sea... In the Orphic poems she is made the daughter of Ares and Aegina; according to some, of Ares and Parnassa; according to Eumelus and Aristode, of Asopus.


The author of the Europa epic says that Amphion was the first to use the lyre, Hermes having instructed him. And he has told the tale of the stones and animals that Amphion drew by his singing.25

2 5 Amphion and his brother Zethus built the walls of Thebes (Odyssey 11.262-265). Amphion's lyre music made the stones move into place of their own accord ("Hesiod," fr. 182). According to Asius (fr. 1) the two brothers were the sons of the Sicyonian Epopeus.

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4. Incertae Sedis


Ενμηλος δέ και τίνες έτεροι λέγουσι Αυκάονι και θυγατέρα Καλλιστώ γενέσθαι.


Αρκάδος δε και Λεανείρας της Αμνκλον τ) Μετανείρας της Κρόκωνος, ώς δέ Ενμηλος λέγει, νύμφης Χρυσοττε-λείας, έγένοντο παίδες "Ελατός και 'ΑφείΒας.


Μενέλαος μεν οΰν έξ Ελένης 'Ερμιόνην έγέννησε . . . έκ Κνωσσίας δέ νύμφης κατά Εύμηλον Ξ,ενόδαμον.

3 4 Clem. Strom. 6.11.1

Εύμήλον γαρ ποιήσαντος

Μνημοσύνης και Ζηνος Ολυμπίου εννέα κούραι,

Χόλων της ελεγείας ώδε άρχεται- "Μνημοσύνης και Ζηνος Όλυμπίου άγλαά τέκνα" (fr. 13.1 West).

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E U M E L U S

4. Unplaced Fragments


Eumelus and certain others say that Lycaon also had a daughter, Callisto.2 6


From Areas and Leaneira the daughter of Amyclus, or Metaneira the daughter of Crocon, or, as Eumelus says, a nymph Chrysopeleia, were born Elatos and Apheidas.


Menelaus fathered Hermione from Helen . . . and from a Cnossian nymph, according to Eumelus, Xenodamus.


For when Eumelus had written

O daughters nine of Mnemosyne and Olympian Zeus,

Solon begins his elegy thus: "O glorious children of Mnemosyne and Olympian Zeus."

2 6 Eumelus must have told the story of how Zeus made love to Callisto and changed her into a bear. Artemis killed her, but Zeus saved her child, who was Areas (fr. 32), the eponym of the Arcadians.

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3 5 Tzetz. in Hes. Op. p.23 Gaisford

άλλ' Ενμηλος μεν ό Κορίνθιος τρεις φησιν είναι Μούσας* θυγατέρας Απόλλωνος- Κηφισονν, Απολλωνίδα, Βο-ρνσθενίδα.

Κ Ι Ν Α Ι Θ Ω Ν

T E S T I M O N I A

Plut. De Pyth. orac. 407b

Όνομάκριτοι δ' εκείνοι και ΤΙρόδικοι και Κιναίθωνες

όο-ην αίτιαν ήνέγκαντο <επί> τών χρησμών, ως τρα-

γωιδίαν αντοίς και δγκον ονδέν δεομένοις προσθέντες,

έώ λέγειν.

ΤΙρόδικοι και Κιναίθωνες Botzon: προδόται και κινέσωνες codd.

Euseb. Chron.

ΟΙ. 4.1: Cinaethon Lacedaemonius poeta, qui Telegoniam

scripsit agnoscitur.

Telegoniam] Genealogias Scaliger.

IG 14.1292 i i 11 = Tabula Iliaca Κ (Borgiae) p. 61 Sadurska

τ]τ)ν Οίδιπόδειαν την υπό Κιναίθωνος τον [Αακεδαι-

μονίον λεγομένην πεποιήσθαι παραλιπόν]τες, έπων

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C I N A E T H O N

3 5 Tzetzes, commentary on Hesiod

But Eumelus of Corinth says there are three Muses, daughters of Apollo: Cephiso, Apollonis, and Borysthenis.27

C I N A E T H O N

T E S T I M O N I A

Plutarch, On the Pythias Oracles

As for all the blame those people such as Onomacritus, Prodicus, and Cinaethon have incurred in respect of oracles by adding unnecessary pomp and drama to them, I pass over it.

Eusebius, Chronicle

Ol. 4.1 (764/763): Cinaethon the Lacedaemonian poet, who wrote the Telegony,2S is recognized.

Borgia plaque

. . . passing over t]he Oedipodea, which [they say was composed] by Cinaethon the [Lacedaemonian] in 6,600 verses,

2 7 Borysthenis is from Borysthenes, the river Dnieper; Cephiso is also from a river, there being several Greek rivers Cephisus. Perhaps Apollonis is a mistake for another river-derived name such as Achelois (Hermann) or Asopis.

2 8 Perhaps an error for Genealogies.

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ANTIQUARIAN EPICS

ονσαν 'fx', νποθήσομεν θηβάίδα [

[Λακεδαιμονίου - παραλιπόνίτες e.g. suppl. Wilamowitz.

Schol. Eur. Tro. 822

. . . τώι την Μικράν Ίλιάδα ττεττοιηκότι, ôv oî μεν Θεστορίδην Φωκ<αι>έα φασίν, oî δε Κιναίθωνα Λακεδαιμόνιος, ώς Ελλάνικος (fr. 202C Fowler, Hellan. gramm. fr. 6* Montanari), οι δε Διόδωρον 'Έ,ρνθραΐον.

Ελλάνικος Hermann: μεΚάνικος cod.

F R A G M E N T A

1 Paus. 8.53.5

Κιναί(9ων δε εν τοις έπεσιν έττοίησεν <ώς> 'ΐαοάμανθνς

μεν Φαίο-τον, Φαιστός δε εΐη Τάλω, Τάλων δε είναι Κρητός παΪδα.

Φαιστού, Φαιστός Malten: Ηφαίστου, "Ηφαιστος codd.

2 Paus. 2.3.9

Κιναί(9ων δε ό Λακεδαιμόνιος, ε'γενεαλόγησε γαρ και ούτος έττεσι, Μήδειον και θυγατέρα 'Εριώταν Ίάσονι ειττεν εκ Mr/δείας γενέσθαι- πέρα δέ ες τούς τταΐδας οΰδε τούτωι πεποιτημένα εστίν.

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CINAETHON

we wil l put down the Thebaid [ . . .

Scholiast on Euripides, Trojan Women

. . . the author of the Little Iliad, whom some say was Thestorides of Phocaea, others Cinaethon of Lace-daemon, as Hellanicus says,29 and others Diodorus of Erythrae.

F R A G M E N T S


Cinaethon in his verses made Rhadamanthys the son of Phaestus, Phaestus the son of Talos, and Talos the son of Cres.30


Cinaethon the Lacedaemonian (for he too wrote genealogies in verse) said that Jason had Medeios and a daughter Eriopis by Medea; but there is nothing further about the children in his work either.

2 9 It is uncertain whether the fifth-century mythographer or the Hellenistic grammarian is meant.

3 0 Phaestus (emended from "Hephaestus") is the eponym of the Cretan town of that name, and Cres the eponym of the island.

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3 Porphyrius ap. schol. (D) II. 3.175

Ελένης τε και MeveXaov Ιστορεί Άρ'ιαιθος (FGrHist 316 F 6) παΐδα Μ,αράφιον, άφ' ov το των Μαραφ'ιων γένος έν Τίέρσαις- ώς δε Κιναίθων, Νικόστρατον.

4 Paus. 2.18.6

Όρέστου δε αποθανόντος έσχε Τεισαμενός την αρχήν, Ερμιόνης της Μ,ενεΧάον και Όρεστον παις. τον δε Όρέστου νόθον ΤΙενθίλον Κιναίθων έγραφεν <εν> τοις

'επεσιν 'ΐίριγόνην την Αίγισθου τεκειν.

5 Paus. 4.2.1

πνθέσθαι δε σπονδήι πάνυ έθελήσας, οΐτινες παίδες ΐίολυκάονι εγενοντο εκ Μεσσήνης, έπελεξάμην τάς τε 'ΐΐοίας καλονμένας και τα έπη τα Ναυπακτία, προς δέ αύτόίς όπόσα Κ-ΐναίθων και "Ασιος έγενεαλόγησαν ου μην ες γε ταϋτα ήν σφισιν ουδέν πεποιημένον.

ΑΣΙΟΣ

1 Paus. 2.6.4

και επη <έπί> τούτωι πεπο'ιηκεν "Ασιος ό Άμφιπτολέμου-

Αντιόπη δ' 'ετεκε Ζήθον κάμφ'ιονα διον Άσωποΰ κούρη πόταμου βαθυδινήεντος, Ζηνί τε κνσαμένη και 'Έπωπέϊ ποιμένι λαών.

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ASIUS

3 Porphyry, Homeric Questions

From Helen and Menelaus Ariaithos records a son Mara-phius, from whom the Maraphians of Persia descend; or as Cinaethon says, Nicostratus.31


When Orestes died, Tisamenus became ruler, the son of Menelaus' daughter Hermione and of Orestes. As for Orestes' bastard son Penthilus, Cinaethon in his verses wrote that he was born to Aegisthus' daughter Erigone.


Wanting very much to find out what children Polycaon had by Messene, I read the so-called Ehoiai and the Naupactia, and besides them all the genealogies of Cinaethon and Asius; but on this point they had not said anything.

A S I U S


And Asius the son of Amphiptolemus has composed verses on this:

Antiope, daughter of Asopus the deep-swirling river, bore Zethus and noble Amphion, after conceiving to Zeus and Epopeus, shepherd of peoples.

31 For Nicostratus see "Hesiod," fr. 175.

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2 Strab. 6.1.15

και "Ασιον τον ποιητήν φήσαντα ότι τον Βοιωτός

Δίου eVi μεγάροις τέκεν εύειδής Μελανίππη.

3 Paus. 9.23.6

είναι δέ Αθάμαντος και θεμιστονς παΐδα τον Πτώος, άφ' ον τώι τ€ Άττόλλωςι έπίκλησις καϊ τώι δρει τό όνομα έγένετο, 'Ασιος εν τοις εττεσιν εΐρηκε.

4 Paus. 5.17.8

"Ασιος δε εν τοις έπεσι και Αλκμήνην έποίησε θυγατέρα Αμφιάραου και Εριφύλης είναι.

5 Paus. 2.29.4

Φώκωι δέ "Ασιος ό τά έπη ποιήσας γενέσθαι φησί Υίανοπέα και Κρΐσον. και ΪΙανοπέως μέν έγένετο Έπειός ό τον ϊππον τον δούρειον, ώς "Ομηρος έποίησεν (Od. 8.493), έργασάμενος- Κρίσου δέ ήν απόγονος τρίτος ΙΙυλάδης, %τροφίου τε ων του Κρίσου και Αναξιβίας αδελφής Αγαμέμνονος.

6 Paus. 3.13.8

γεγάνασι δέ οι Ύννδάρεω παίδες τά προς μητρός από τον ΥΙλενρώνος- θέστιον γαρ τον Αήδας πατέρα "Ασιός φη-σιν έν τοΐς έπεσιν Αγήνορος παίδα είναι τον Υίλευρωνος.

256

ASIUS

2 Strabo, Geography

. . . and the poet Asius, who said that Boeotus

was born in Dius' house to fair Melanippe.


That Ptous, from whom Ptoian Apollo got his title and Mt. Ptoion its name, was the son of Athamas and Themisto, Asius has said in his verses.


Asius in his verses made Alcmena too the daughter of Amphiaraus and Eriphyle.


Phocus' sons, according to Asius the verse-writer, were Panopeus and Crisus.32 And from Panopeus was born Epeios, the man who constructed the wooden horse, as Homer wrote, while Crisus' grandson was Pylades, who was the son of Crisus' son Strophios and Agamemnon's sister Anaxibia.


The sons of Tyndareus are of Pleurons stock on their mother's side, for Asius in his verses says that Leda s father Thestius was the son of Agenor the son of Pleuron.

3 2 Phocus is the eponym of Phocis, and his sons the eponyms of the Phocian towns Panopeus and Crisa. Compare "Hesiod," fr. 58.

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7 Paus. 7.4.1

"ACTIOS- δέ ό Άμφιπτολέμου Σάμιος έποίησεν έν τοις έπεσιν ώς Φοινίκι έκ ΤΙεριμήδης της Οίνέως γένοιτο Αστυπάλαια και Ευρώπη, Ποσειδώνος δέ και Αστυπάλαιας είναι παΐδα Άγκαίον, βασιλεύειν δε αυτόν των καλουμένων Αελέγων Άγκαίωι δέ την θυγατέρα τοΰ ποταμού λαβόντι τοΰ Μαιάνδρου Χαμ'ιαν γενέσθαι ΤΙερίλαον και "Ενουδον και Χάμον και Άλιθέρσην και θυγατέρα έπ' αύτώι ΪΙαρθενόπην Ώαρθενόπης δέ της Άγκαίου και Απόλλωνος Αυκομήδην γενέσθαι. "Ασιος μέν ές τοσοΰτο έν τοις έπεσιν έδήλωσε.

8 Paus. 8.1.4

ττεποίηται δέ και Άσίωι τοιάδί €ς αυτόν

άντ'ιθεον δέ Πελασγόν ev νφικόμοισιν δρεσσιν γάΐα μέλαιν άνέδωκεν, ίνα θνητών γένος ε'ίη.


Ευμηλος δί (fr. 31) καί τίνες έτεροι λέγουσι Αυκάονι και θυγατέρα Καλλιστώ γενέσθαι. <άλλοι δέ ου φασιν αυτήν τούτου γενέσθαι- > Ησίοδος μέν γαρ αυτήν (fr. 163) μίαν είναι των νυμφών λέγει, "Ασιος δέ Νυκτέως, Φερεκύδης δέ (fr. 157 Fowler) Κητί'ως.

258

ASIUS


Asius of Samos, the son of Amphiptolemus, wrote in his verses that to Phoenix from Oineus' daughter Perimede were born Astypalaea and Europa, and that Poseidon and Astypalaea had a son Ancaeus, who was king of the people called Leleges; and that to Ancaeus, who married Samia, the daughter of the river Maeander, were born Perilaus, Enoudos, Samos, Halitherses, and a daughter Parthenope in addition; and that from Ancaeus' daughter Parthenope and Apollo, Lycomedes was born. This much Asius made clear in his verses.


Asius too has written about him as follows:

And godlike Pelasgus the dark earth put forth in the wooded mountains, so that there might be a mortal race.3 3


Eumelus and some others say that Lycaon also had a daughter, Callisto. < But others say she was not his daughter, > for Hesiod says she was one of the nymphs, Asius makes her the daughter of Nycteus, and Pherecydes the daughter of Ceteus.

3 3 In Arcadian myth Pelasgus was the first man, who grew from the earth like a tree. Compare "Hesiod," fr. 160.

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1 0 Schol. Od. 4.797, "δέμας δ' ήϊκτο γνναικί, I Ίφθίμηι, κονρηι μεγαλήτορος Ίκαρίοιο"

όντως έκαλέίτο κνρίως ή αδελφή τής ΤΙηνελόπης. "ACTIOS δε φησι-

κονραί τ Ίκαρίοιο Μέδη και Τίηνελόπεια.

"Ανδρών δε (fr. 12 Fowler) 'Ύφιπνλην λέγει.

1 1 Paus. 2.6.5

%ικνώνα δέ ον Μαραθωνος τον 'Έ,πωπέως, Μητίονος δέ είναι τον Ερεχθέως φασίν ομολογεί δέ σφισι και "ACTIOS.

1 2 Paus. 4.2.1, see Cinaethon fr. 5.

1 3 Ath. 525e

περί δέ τής "ϊ,αμίων τρνφής Δονρις Ίστορών (FGrHist 76 F 60) παρατίθεται Άσίον ποιήματα, ότι έφόρονν χλίδωνας περί τοις βραχίοσιν και τήν έορτήν άγοντες των Ηραίων έβάδιζον κατεκτενισμένοι τάς κόμας έπϊ το μετάφρενον και τοίις ώμονς . . . έστι δέ τα τον Acriov έπη όντως έχοντα-

οι δ' αντως φοίτεσ~κον, όπως πλοκάμονς κτενίσαιντο,

εις 'Υίρης τέμενος, πεπνκασμένοι ε'ιμασι καλοις, χιονέοισι χιτώσι ϊπέδον χθονός ενρέος είχον\-

260

A S I U S

1 0 Scholiast on the Odyssey, "and in form she resembled a woman, Iphthime, the daughter of the heroic Icarius"

This was the proper name of Penelope's sister. But Asius says:

And the daughters of Icarius, Meda and Penelope.

And Andron calls her Hypsipyle.


As for Sikyon, they say he was not the son of Epopeus' son Marathon,3 4 but of Erechtheus' son Metion; and Asius agrees with them.

1 2 Pausanias, Description of Greece: see above, Cinaethon fr. 5.


On the subject of the Samians' luxury, Duris adduces poetry of Asius to the effect that they wore bangles round their arms, and that when they celebrated the Heraia festival they paraded with their hair combed back over the nape and shoulders . . . Asius' lines are as follows:

And they would go like that, when they had combed their locks, to Hera's precinct, wrapped in fine garments, in snowy tunics reaching down to the ground(?); 3 5 there were

3 4 As in the version of Eumelus, fr. 19. 3 5 The Greek is corrupt.

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χρΰσειαι δέ κορύμβαι έπ' αυτών τέττιγες ώς-5 χαίται 8' <ήι>ωρίο<ν>τ' άνέμωι χρυσίοις ivl

δεσμοίς-δαιδάλεοι δε χλίδωνες αρ' άμφί βραχίοσιν ήσαν < >τες ύπασπίδιον πολεμιστήν.

Η Γ Η Σ Ι Ν Ο Τ Α Τ Θ Ι Σ

Paus. 9.29.1

θΰσαι δέ iv Έλικώνι Μούσαις πρώτους και έπονομάσαι το ορός ίερόν είναι Μουσών Έφιάλτην και Ώτον λΐγου-σιν, οίκίσαι δε αυτούς και Ασκρ-ην. και δτ) και Ήγτ/σί-νους έπι τώιδε εν τήι Άτθίδι έποίτ/σεν

"Ασκρηι δ' αΰ παρέλεκτο Ποσειδάων ένοσίχθων, ή δή οί τέκε παΐδα περιπλομένων ένιαυτών Οϊοκλον, δς πρώτος μετ' Άλωέος έκτισε παίδων "Ασκρ-ην, ή θ' 'Έ,λικώνος έχει πόδα πιδακόεντα.

ταύτην τού 'ΐίγησίνου τήν ποίησιν ούκ έπελε^άρην, αλλά πρότερον άρα έκλελοιπυΐα ήν πριν ή έρέ γενέσθαι- Κάλ-λιππος- δέ Κορίνθιος εν τήι ες Όρχομενίους συγγραφήι (FGrHist 385 F 1) μαρτύρια ποιείται τώι λόγωι τα έπη, ωσαύτως δέ και ήμ€Ϊς πεποιήμεθα παρ' αυτού (Καλλίπ-που) διδαχ#έντε?.

262

HEGESINOUS

gold brooches on them, like crickets; 3 6 their hair floated in the wind, bound in gold; round their arms there were ornate bracelets; [ . . . ] a shield-covered warrior.

H E G E S I N O U S , ATTHIS


They say that the first to sacrifice to the Muses on Helicon and to pronounce the mountain to be sacred to the Muses were Ephialtes and Otus; and that they also founded Ascra. And indeed Hegesinous composed verses on this in his Atthis:

As for Ascra, Poseidon the earth-shaker lay with her, and she bore him a son in the course of time: Oioklos, the original founder, with the sons of Aloeus, of Ascra, which occupies Helicons well-watered foot.

This poem of Hegesinous I have not read; it had gone out of circulation before my time; but Callippus of Corinth in his work addressed to the Orchomenians quotes the verses in support of his argument, and we have done likewise, as apprised by him.

3 6 See A. W. Gommes commentary on Thucydides 1.6.3.

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XEPSIAS

T E S T I M O N I A

Plut. Sept. sap. conv. 156e

είπόντος δέ ταύτα τον Μνησιφίλον, Χερσίας ό ποιητής (άφεΐτο γαρ ήδη της αιτίας καϊ διήλλακτο τώι Περιάνδρωι νεωστί, Χίλωνος δεηθεντος) "άρ' ονν," 'εφη, κτλ.

Plut. Sept. sap. conv. 163f

επί δε τούτοις ό ποιητής Χερσίας άλλων τε σωθεντων άνελπίστως εμεμνητο και Κυψέλου τον ΐίεριάνδρον πατρός . . . διό και τον οίκον iv Αελφοίς κατεσκενασεν ο Κύφελος . . . και ό ΤΙιττακος προσαγορεύσας τον ΤΙερίανδρον, "εν γ'" εφη "Περίανδρε Χερσίας εποίησε μνησθεϊς τον οίκου· πολλάκις γαρ εβονλόμην ερεσθαι σε των βατράχων τήν αίτίαν εκείνων, τί βονλονται περί τον πνθμενα τον φοίνικος έντετορενμένοι τοσούτοι . . ." τού δε ΐίεριάνδρου τον Χερσίαν ερωτάν κελενσαντος, είδεναι γαρ εκείνον και παρείναι τώι Κυψέλωι καθιερούντι τον οίκον, ό Χερσίας μειδιάσας κτλ.

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C H E R S I A S

C H E R S I A S

T E S T I M O N I A

Plutarch, Banquet of the Seven Sages

When Mnesiphilus had spoken, the poet Chersias (for he had now been acquitted of the charge against him and recently reconciled with Periander on Chilon's pleading) said, etc.

Whereupon the poet Chersias recalled other cases of unexpected salvation, and that of Cypselus, Periander s father . . . which was why Cypselus constructed the building at D e l p h i . . . And Pittacus, addressing Periander, said, "It's good that Chersias has mentioned the building, Periander, because I've often wanted to ask you the explanation of those frogs, why they are carved in such numbers round the base of the palm-tree . . . " When Periander told him to ask Chersias, as he knew that he had actually been present when Cypselus consecrated the building, Chersias smiled and said, etc.

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Paus. 9.38.9

Άο-πληδόνα δε έκΚιπείν τούς οίκήτοράς φασιν ύδατος σπανίζοντας- γενέσθαι δέ το όνομα άπο Άσπληδόνος τήι πόλει, τούτον δέ είναι νύμφης τε Μιδείας και Ποσειδώνος, ομολογεί δέ και έπη σφίσιν α έποίησε Χερσίας άνήρ Όρχομένιος-

έκ δέ Ποσειδάωνος άγακλειτής τε Μιδείης Άσπληδών γένεθ' νιος αν ενρύχορον πτολίεθρον.

ουδέ τού Χερσίον των έπων ουδεμία ην έτι κατ έμέ μνήμη, άλλα και τάδε έπηγάγετο ό Κάλλιππος (FGrHist 385 F 2) ές τον αύτον λόγον τον έχοντα ές Όρχομενίονς. τούτον δέ τού Χερσίον και επίγραμμα οι Όρχομένιοι το έπί τώι Ησιόδου τάφωι μνημονεύονσιν.

Δ Α Ν Α Ι Σ


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F R A G M E N T A


και TOT αρ ώπλίζοντο θοώς Δαναοΐο θύγατρες πρόσθεν εύρρείος ποταμού Νείλοιο άνακτος.

266

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F R A G M E N T


They say that its founders abandoned Aspledon for lack of water; and that the town got its name from Aspledon, who was the son of a nymph Midea and Poseidon. They find agreement in the verses composed by Chersias, an Orchomenian:

And from Poseidon and renowned Midea a son Aspledon was born in the broad-arena'd township.

Of Chersias' verses too 3 7 there was no longer any record in my time: they too were adduced by Callippus in that same discourse bearing on the Orchomenians. Of this Chersias the Orchomenians also record an epigram, the one on Hesiod's tomb. 3 8

DANAIS


Borgia plaque

. . . and the Danaids, in 6,500 verses, and the [ . . .

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And then swiftly the daughters of Danaus armed themselves in front of the fair-flowing river, the lord Nile.

3 7 Like those of Hegesinous, which Pausanias quoted a few pages earlier.

3 8 Forthis epigram see Certamen 14. Pausanias has quoted it a page earlier (9.38.4).

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2 Harpocr. A 272

ό Se Πίνδαρος (fr. 253) και 6 τήν Δανα'ί'δα πεποιηκως φασιν Έριχβόνιον καϊ 'Ήφαιστον έκ γης φανήναι.


ττα]ρά δε τώι ποή[σαν\τι την Δανα[ΐδα] μητρός των θ[εών θ]εράττον[τ]ες [οί Κον]ρήτες.

M I N T A S

1 Paus. 10.28.2

έπηκολούθησε δέ ό Πολύγνωτος epoi δοκέίν ποιήσει Μιννάδι- έστι γάρ δή έν τήι Μινυάδι ες Θησέα έχοντα καϊ ΐίειρίθουν

ένθ' ήτοι νέα μέν νεκνάμβατον, ην 6 γεραιός πορθμούς ήγε Χάρων, ουκ έλλαβον ένδοθεν

όρμου.

έτίι τοΰτωι ούν και Πολύγνωτος γέροντα έγραφεν ήδη τήι ήλικίαι τον Χάρωνα.

2 Paus. 10.28.7

ή δέ Ομήρου ποίησις ές Όδυσσέα και ή Μινυάς τε καλούμενη και οί Νόστοι (μνήμη γάρ δή και έν ταύταις "Αιδου και των έκεϊ δειμάτων εστίν) ϊσασιν ούδένα Εΰρν-νομον δαίμονα.

268

MINYAS

2 Harpocration, Lexicon to the Orators

Pindar and the author of the Danais say that Erichthonius and Hephaestus appeared out of the earth. 3 9


And according to the author of the Danais, the Kouretes are servants of the Mother of the Gods.

MINYAS

1 Pausanias, Geography of Greece

Polygnotus in my opinion followed the poem Minyas. For in the Minyas there is this, referring to Theseus and Pirithous:

There they did not find the boat that the dead board, which the old ferryman Charon guided, at its berth.

On this basis, then, Polygnotus too painted Charon as already advanced in age.


But Homer's poem about Odysseus and the so-called Minyas and the Returns (for in these too there is mention of Hades and the terrors in it) know of no demon Eurynomus.

3 9 "And Hephaestus" may be corrupt. The usual story is that Hephaestus, in trying to rape Athena, spilt his semen on the ground, which then gave birth to Erichthonius.

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3 Paus. 9.5.8

λέγεται δέ καί ώς εν "Αιδου δίκ-ην δίδωο-ιν Αμφίων ών ες Λητώ και τονς παΐδας καί αυτός άπερριφε· και τα is την τιμωρίαν τον Άμφίονός έστι ποιήσεως Μιννάδος, έχει δε is Άμφίονα κοινώς καί is τον θράικα θάμνριν.

4 Paus. 4.33.7

ΤΙρόδικος δε Φωκαεύς, εϊ δτ) τούτον τα is την Μινυάδα επη, προσκείο-θαί φησι ©αμύριδι iv "Αιδον δίκην τοΰ is τάς Μούσας αύχήρατος.

5 Paus. 10.31.3

αί δέ Ήοΐαί τε καλούμεναι (Hes. fr. 25.12-13) και ή Μινυας ώμολογήκασιν άλλήλαις· Απόλλωνα γαρ δτ) ανταί φασιν αί ποιήσεις άμνναι Κούρτ/σιν επί τούς Αιτωλούς καί άποθανείν Μελέαγρου ύπο Απόλλωνος.


'Ω,]ρίωνα δέ θνη[τόν\ λέγει και ό τή[ν Μι]ννάδα γράφ[ας, άποθανείν δ' ύ]π' Ά[ρτεμιδος.

7* P. Ibscher col. i

0 [" ον δύνατ ον τις] ανθρώπων όλ]εσαι με βίηφί τε δονρί τε μακρώι, άλλά με Μοίρ' όλο]ή καί Αητονς ώλεο~ε[ν νίός. άλλ' άγε δή μοι ταύτα δι]αμττ€ρέως άγό[ρενσον

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It is also said that Amphion is punished in Hades for his insults towards Leto and her children; the reference to Amphion's punishment is in the poem Minyas, and it refers jointly to Amphion and the Thracian Thamyris.


Prodicus of Phocaea (if he is the author of the epic on the Minyas)40 says that punishment has been imposed on Thamyris in Hades for his boast to the Muses.


But the so-called Ehoiai and the Minyas are in agreement with each other: these poems say that Apollo assisted the Kouretes against the Aetolians, and that Meleager was killed by Apollo.


And the writer of the Minyas says that Orion was mor[tal, and killed by Artemis].

7* Ibscher papyrus (first century B C ) 4 1

"No man was able] to slay me by his strength and long spear; [ i t was dread Fate and the son] of Leto who destroyed [me. But come, tell [me this] from the beginning:

4 0 An odd expression. Possibly Minyas here means the country of the Minyans. For Thamyris and his boast see Iliad 2.594-600.

41 Meleager in Hades is speaking to Theseus.

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τίπτ' άρ όδον τοσσ~η\νδε κατήλνθες \είς Άίδαο, 5 τίπτε δε ΐίειρίθοός τοι] άμ' έσπετο πισ[τος] ε[ταΐρος;

]ει τί κατά χρ<ε>ω ζω[ος ίκανε]ις;" τον δ' άντε προσέφη π]ρότερό[ς] τ απ[ο] μϋθον

" Γ

εειττείν

Θησενς Αίγείδης ]ας ε'ς ποιμένα λαών 10 "διογεν]ε9 [Μελ]εα-ν[ρε, δαί]φρονος Οίνέος υιέ,

τοιγάρ έγώ τοι\ ταΰτ[α μ]άλ' άτρεκεως καταλέξω. 9 ΤΙειρίθοον μεγάλ' άσε θ]ίά δασ-πλήτις Έρινύς-

12 ] ενωει>δε[ ]άγαυήν Φερσεφόνειαν ] ας φάς ν[εΰο-]αι Δ[ία] τερπικέραυνον

άθανά]των τε νόμοις, "ινα έδνώσειεν ακ[ο]ιτιν 15 και γάρ] εκείνους φασί κασιγνήτας μεγ[ακ]υδείς

μνηο-]τεύειν, γαμέειν δε φίλων άπάν[ευθε τοκήων. ώδε κ]αί έκ μακάρων γάμον όρνυται έδνώσασθαι αϋτοκ]ασ-ιγνήτην όμοπάτριον έγγυτέρω γάρ φήσ' εί]ναι γεγαώς αυτός μεγάλου Άίδαο

20 Φερσεφ\όνηι κονρηι Αημήτερος ήύκόμοιο-αυτός] μέν γάρ φησι κασίγνητος και οπατρος της έμ]εν<αι>, Άίδην δέ φίλον πάτρωα τετΰχθαι· τον δ' εν]εκεν φάτο βήμεν ΰπο ζόφον ήερόεντα."

ως έφατ'-] Οίνείδης δε κατέστυγε μνθον άκουσας, 25 τον δ' άτ/·]αιι[εΐ/8ό]ιιεΐΌς προσεφώνει μειλιχίοισιν

"&ησεΰ Άθην]α'ιων βουληφόρε θωρηκτάων, ή ρ οΰχ ΊτΓ7Γθ]δά/χει.α περ'ιφρων ην παρά[κοι]τις

μ]εγαθνμον ΥΙειριθόοιο; θερ]άποντα[

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M I N Y A S

[why] have you come [all this way to Hades? And why has Pirithous] your trusty comrade come with you? [ . . . ] What need had you to [come here a]live?"

[Theseus the son of Aegeus spoke] first and answered him, [ ]ing at the shepherd of peoples:

"[Noble Mel]eager, son of the wise Oineus, I wi l l tell you exactly. [Pirithous has been greatly misled by] the grim goddess Erinys: [he has come to seek] illustrious Persephone, saying that Zeus whose sport is the thunderbolt [has given approval, and according to the go]ds' customs, to contract for her as his wife. For they too are said to woo their glorious sisters, and make love to them out of sight of their dear [parents. So] he is eager to contract a marriage from among the blessed ones—his own sister from the same father; for he [claims] he is closer kin than great Hades to Persephone, the daughter of lovely-haired Demeter. For he says he is her brother, of one father, while Hades is her dear uncle. I t was for that he said he was going down to the misty dark."

[So he spoke,] and Oineus' son shuddered on hearing what he said, and addressed him in answer with soothing words:

"[Theseus], counsellor of the warrior Athe[nians, was not prudent [Hippo]dameia the wife [ . . . ] of great-spirited Pirithous? . . . "

273


(fragments of four more lines, and of 22 in the following column)

4, 6 suppl. Page; 15 fin., 18, 19 Latte; 16 fin., 23 Maas; cetera Merkelbach, West 9 post 11 transp. West.

8* Pausimachus ap. Philod. De poematis 1 col. 123.6 Janko

ή [8ε με]τά φθιμενοισι πολυ[λ]λίστη βασίλεια

Ν Α Τ Π Α Κ Τ Ι Α


Paus. 10.38.11

τα 8ε επη τα Ναυπακτία ονομαζόμενα ύπο Ελλήνων άνδρι ecT7rotoi!crtv οι πολλοί ΜιλησίωΓ Χάρων 8ε ό ϊϊυθεω (FGrHist 262 F 4) φησίν αυτά πουησαι Ναυ-πάκτιον Καρκίνον. επόμεθα 8ε και ημείς τήι του Ααμφακηνοΰ 8όζηι- τίνα γαρ και λόγον εχοι αν επεσιν ανδρός Μιλησίου πεποιημενοις ες γυναίκας τεθήναί σφισιν όνομα Ναυπακτία;

F R A G M E N T A

1 Schol. (Τ) II. 15.336c

ομοίως τώι ποιητήι και Ελλάνικος (fr. 121 Fowler) 'Έ,ρι-ώπην την μητέρα Αϊαντός φησιν ΦερεκνΒης 8ε εν ε' (fr.

274

C A R M E N N A U P A C T I U M

(Fragments of four more lines, and o f 22 in the following column.)

8* Pausimachus of Miletus

[But] she among the dead, the Queen much prayed to.41

CARMEN NAUPACTIUM



As for the epic w h i c h the Greeks call the Naupactia, most father it on a man from Miletus, but Charon the son of Pythes says that a Naupactian, Carcinus, composed it. We too follow the Lampsacene historians opinion, for what sense would it have for a poem by a Milesian, on the subject of women, t o be entitled Naupactia?

F R A G M E N T S


Like Homer, Hellanicus says that Eriope was Ajax's mother. But Pherecydes i n Book 5 and Mnaseas in Book 8 say it was

4 2 Persephone. Pausimachus, known only from Philodemus, wrote on euphonious composition, perhaps around 200 B C .

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24 F.) και Μνασέας έν η (FHG iii.153 fr. 19) Άλκιμάχην ό δε των Να<υ>πακτίδων ποιητής διώνυμον αυτήν φησι·

τήν St μέθ' όπλοτάτην <τίκτεν περικαλλέα κούρην,

τήν δη μητροπάτωρ> 'Κριώπην έξονόμαζεν, Άλκιμάχην δε πατήρ τε και "Αδρητος καλέεσκεν.

< > e.g. suppl. West.

2 Herodian. π. μον. λε'£. 15 (ϋ.922.1 Lentz)

και το ρήν . . . έν συνθέσει πολύρρην παρά τώι τά Ναυπακτικά ποιήσαντι-

άλλ' δ μέν ούν άπάνευθε θαλάσσης ενρυπόροιο οικία ναιετάασκε πολύρρην πο<ν>λυβοώτης.

1 άπάνευθε Lobeck: έπινευσι cod.: έπί θινϊ Cramer.

3 Schol. Αρ. Rhod. 2.299, "κευθμώνα Κρήτης"

6 <δέ> τά Ναυπακτικά ποιήσας και Φερεκύδης έν ς' (fr. 29 Fowler) φασίν εις το σπέος αύτάς (sc. τάς Άρπυίας) φυγείν τής Κρήτης το ύπό τώι λόφωι τώι Άργινούντι.

4 Schol. Αρ. Rhod. 3.515-21

ό μέν Απολλώνιος τούτους φησί προαιρεϊσθαι ζεύζαι τους βόας, ό δέ τά Ναυπακτικά ποιήο"ας πάντας αριθμεί τούς ύπ' αυτού φερομένους άριστεΐς.

276


Alcimache, while the poet of the Naupactids [sic] says she had a double name:

And after her, as the youngest, <she bore a fair daughter, whom her maternal grandfather called Eriope, but her father and Admetus called her Alcimache.

2 Herodian, On Peculiar Words

. . . and rhen . . . In a compound, polyrrhen in the author of the Naupactica:

But he had his home apart from the broad-wayed sea, a man rich in sheep and rich in cattle.


The author of the Naupactica and Pherecydes in Book 6 say that they [the Harpies] fled into the cave in Crete which is below the hill of Arginous.43


Apollonius says that these individuals volunteered to yoke the oxen, whereas the author of the Naupactica lists all the heroes recognized by him.

4 3 Unknown. The Harpies were pursued by the Boreads; compare "Hesiod," frs. 150-156.

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5 Schol. Ap. Rhod. 3.523-524

εν δέ r o t s Νανπακτικοΐς "Ιδρων άναστάς Ίάσονι κελεύει ύποστήναι τον άθλον.

6 Schol. Αρ. Rhod. 4.66a, 86 (cf. 3.240)

παρά δε τώι τά Ναυπακτικά πεποιηκότι ούκ εστί κατά τήν ιδίαν προαίρεσιν έξιονσα ή Μήδεια, άλλ' έφ' ίστί-α<σι>ν καλουμένων των Αργοναυτών κατ' έπιβουλήν, ένστάντος του της αναιρέσεως αυτών καιρού, προτραπο-μένου δέ του Αίήτου έπί τήν Εύρυλύτης της γυναικός συνουσίαν, Ίδμονος νποθεμένου τοις Άργοναύταις άπο-διδράσκειν, και Μήδεια συνεκπλεϊ.

(86) ό τά Ναυττακτικά πεποιηκώς ύπό Αφροδίτης φησί τον Αίήτην κατακοιμηθήναι . . . δεδειπνηκότων παρ' αύτώι των Αργοναυτών και κοιμωμένων, διά το βού-λεσθαι αυτόν τήν ναύν έμπρήσαν

δή τότ άρ' Αίήτηι πόθον έμβαλε δΐ' Αφροδίτη Έύρυλύτης φιλότητι μιγήμεναι, ής άλόχοιο, κηδομένη φρεσίν ήισιν, όπως μετ' άεθλον Ίήσων νοστήσηι ο'ικόνδε συν άγχεμάχοις έτάροισιν.

ό δέ "Ιδρων συνήκε τό γεγονός και φησν

7

"φευγέμεναι μεγάροιο θοήν διά νύκτα μέλαιναν."

278



In the Naupactica Idmon stands up and tells Jason to undertake the task.44


In the author of the Naupactica we do not find Medea going out on her own initiative.' the Argonauts were invited to a dinner as part of a plot, and when the moment for their destruction was impending, but Aietes turned to make love to his wife Eurylyte, Idmon advised the Argonauts to escape, and Medea sailed off with them.

The author of the Naupactica says that Aietes was put to sleep by Aphrodite . . . after the Argonauts had dined with him and were going to bed, and she did this because he intended to set fire to the ship:

Then high-born Aphrodite cast desire upon Aietes to unite in love with Eurylyte his wife,- she was concerned in her mind that after his great trial Jason should come safe home with his combative comrades.

Idmon understood what had happened, and said:

7

"Flee from the hall, swift through the dark night!"

•M As in fr. 4, the task is that of yoking Aietes' fire-breathing oxen.

279


την δέ Μήδειας τήν ποδοφοφίαν άκοΰσασαν άναστάσαν συνεζορμήσαι.

φευγεμεν εκ Meineke.

8 Schol. Αρ. Rhod. 4.87

ό μεν Απολλώνιος μετά το φυγείν την Μήδειαν εκ του Air/του οίκου πεποίηται υπισχνούμένην το κώας τώι Ίάσοι>ι· ό δε τά Ναυπακτικά γράψας συνεκφέρουσαν αυτήν το κώας κατά την φυγήν, κατά τον αύτοΰ οίκον κείμενον (τοΰ Αίήτου).

9 Paus. 2.3.9

επη δέ εστίν εν Έλλησι Ναυπακτία ονομαζόμενα, πεποίηται δέ έν αΰτοΐς Ίοίσονα έζ Ίωλκοΰ μετά τόν Πελίου θάνατον ες Κόρκυραν μετοίκησαν καί οί Μέρ-μερον μεν τόν πρεσβύτερον τών παίδων ΰπό λεαίνης δίαφθαρήναι θηρεύοντα εν τήι πέραν ηπείρων Φέρητι δέ ουδέν έστιν ες μνήμην προσκείμενον.


Άσκληπιο[ν δέ Ζ]εύς έκεραύνωσ[εν, ώς μ\έν ό τά Ναυ-πα[κτι]ακά συγγράφας [έν τ]ε Άσκληπιώ[ι Τελ]έσ"της (PMG 807) καί Κινη[σία?] ό μελοποιός (PMG 774), δ[τι τό]ν Ίππόλυτον [παραβληθείς ύπ' Άρ[τέρι]δος άν-έστ[η]σε[ν, κτλ.

Cf. ibid. Β 4912; Apollod. Bibl. 3.10.3 (interp.).

280


And Medea, hearing the noise of feet, got up and set off with them.


Apollonius has made Medea promise the Fleece to Jason after her flight from Aietes' house, whereas the writer of the Naupactica had her bring it out with her as she fled, as it had been lying in his house.


There is an epic called Naupactia among the Greeks, and it is written in it that Jason migrated from Iolcus after Pelias' death to Corcyra; and that Mermerus, the elder of his sons, was killed by a lioness as he was hunting on the mainland opposite, but nothing further is recorded about Pheres. 4 5


Asclepius was thunderbolted by Zeus: as the author of the Naupactiaca and Telestes in his Asclepius and Cinesias the lyricist say, because he raised Hippolytus from the dead at Artemis' pleading. 4 6

4 5 An Epirotic son of Mermerus is mentioned in Odyssey 1.259. He was probably originally an independent figure of local saga who was made a son of Jason when the latte r was brought into Corcyraean legend.

4 6 Others gave other reasons for Asclepius' suffering this fate. Compare "Hesiod," fr. 51; Stesichorus, PAfG 194; Panyassis, fr. 5; Pherecydes, fr. 35 Fowler; Pindar, Pyth. 3.54-58; Orph. fr. 40.

281

ANTIQUARIAN EPICS

1 1 Paus. 4.2.1, see Cinaethon fr. 5.

Φ Ο Ρ Ω Ν Ι 2


Ακουσίλαος γαρ (fr. 23a Fowler) Φορωνέα πρώτον άνθρω-ττον γενέσθαι λέγει· όθεν και ό της Φορωνίδος ποιητής είναι αυτόν έφη

πατέρα θνητών ανθρώπων,

πατέρα Clem.: πατήρ fort, poeta.

2 Schol. Αρ. Rhod. 1.1126-1131b, "Αάκτυλοι Ίδαΐοι"

ό δέ τήν Φορωνίδα συνθεις γράφει ούτως-

ενθα γοητες Ίδαΐοι, Φρύγες άνδρες, όρέστερα οικϊ έναιον, Κέλμις Ααμναμενεύς τε μέγας και ΰπέρβιος

"Ακμών, εύπάλαμοι θεράποντες όρείης Άδρηστείης,

5 οι πρώτοι τέχνηις πολυμήτιος ΊΊφαίστοιο εΰρον έν οϋρε'ιηισι νάπαις Ίόεντα σίδηρον ές πυρ τ ήνεγκαν και άριπρεπές έργον έδειξαν.

2 όρέστερα West: όρεστεροι codd. 5 τέχνηις West: τέχνην codd.

282

P H O R O N I S

11 Pausanias, Description of Greece: see above, Cinaethon fr. 5.

PHORONIS

1 Clement, Miscellanies

For Acusilaus says that Phoroneus was the first human; hence the poet of the Phoronis said he was

the father of mortal men.

2 Scholiast on Apollonius of Rhodes, "Idaean Dactyls'

And the composer of the Phoronis writes as follows:

. . . where the wizards of Ida, Phrygian men, had their mountain homes: Kelmis, great Damnameneus, and haughty Akmon, skilled servants of Adrastea of the mountain, they who first, by the arts of crafty Hephaestus, discovered dark iron in the mountain glens, and brought it to the fire, and promulgated a fine achievement.

283


3 Strab. 10.3.19

ό δέ την Φορωνίδα γράφας αύλητάς καϊ Φρύγας τούς Κουρήτας λέγει.


πριν γοΰν άκριβωθήναι τάς τών αγαλμάτων σχέσεις, κίονας Ίστάντες οι παλαιοί έσεβον τούτους ως άφιδρύ-ματα τού θεού. γράφει γούν 6 την Φορωνίδα ποιήσας·

Καλλιθόη, κλη&οΰχος Όλυμπιάδος βασιλε'ιης, ΐίρης Άργείης, ή στέμμασι και θυσάνοισιν

πρώτη έκόσμησεν πέρι κίονα μακρόν άνασσης.

5 Et. Gen./Magn. s.v. έριούνιος

επίθετον Ερμου ... παρά το έρι έπιτατικόν καϊ την δνησιν . . . και γάρ ο την Φορωνίδα γράφας φησίν

Έρμείαν δε πατήρ έριούνιον ώνόμασ' αυτόν πάντας γάρ μάκαράς τε θεούς θνητούς τ

ανθρώπους κέρδεσι κλεπτοσύνηισί τ εκαίνυτο τεχνηέσσαις.

6 P. Oxy. 2260 i 3

καϊ ό τήν Φορ[ωνίδα] πεποιηκώς, εν ο[Ίς φη]σιν

ουδέ τι κούρ[η αρκέσει έγρεμάχη [δο]λιχάορος άγρομέ[νοισιν.

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P H O R O N I S

3 Strabo, Geography

The writer of the Phoronis says that the Kouretes are pipers and Phrygians.

4 Clement, Miscellanies

Certainly, before the qualities of statues were refined, the ancients used to set up pillars and revere them as images of God. At any rate, the author of the Phoronis writes:

Callithoe, keyholder of the Olympian queen, Argive Hera; she who first decorated the Lady's tall pillar round about with wreaths and tassels.47

5 Etymologicum Genuinum and Magnum

Eriounios: an epithet of Hermes . . . from the intensive prefix eri- and onesis (profit). . . For the writer of the Phoronis too says:

And his father named him Hermes eriounios, because he surpassed all the blessed gods and mortal men in profiteering and artful diievery.

6 Oxyrhynchus papyrus (second century AD)

And so the composer of the Phoronis, where he says:

Nor wi l l the battle-rousing maiden of the long sword 4 8 be enough to save them when they gather(?).

4 7 Callithoe or Callithyessa, identified with Io, was the first priestess of Hera at Argos.

4 8 Athena.

285

E P I C A A D E S P O T A

1 Amphora picta, Mus. Brit. Ε 270 (Kretschmer, Die griech. Vaseninschrifien 90)

hôSé ποτ εν Ύύρινθι

2 Simonides PMG 564

(Μελέαγρος,) ος δουρί πάντας νίκασε νέους, δινάεντα βαλών "Αναυρον υπερ πολυβότρυος έζ Ίωλκοΰ· ούτω γαρ "Ομηρος ίδέ Χτασίχορος άεισε λαοΐς.

3 Hippocr. De articulis 8

καλώς γαρ "Ομηρος καταμεμαθήκει ότι πάντων τών προβάτων βόες μάλιστα άτονέουσι ταύτην την ώρην (sc. του χειμώνος τελευτώντος) . . . τα μέν γαρ άλλα πρόβατα δύναται βραχέίαν την ποίην βόσκεσθαι, βοΰς δε οΰ μάλα, πριν βαθεΐα γένηται . . . δια τούτο ούν έπο'ιησεν τάδε τά έπη·

ώς δ' όπότ' άσπάσιον εαρ ήλυθε βουσιν ελιξιν,

ότι άσμενωτατη αύτοίσιν ή βαθεια πο'ιη φαίνεται.

Cf. eund. Vectiarius 5.

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U N P L A C E D F R A G M E N T S 1

1 Red-figure vase by the Cleophrades Painter (early fifth century)

Even so once in Tiryns . . . 2

2 Simonides, lyric fragment

(Meleager,) who surpassed all the young men with the javelin, hurling it across the eddying Anauros from Iolcus rich in vines: so Homer and Stesichorus sang to the peoples.3

3 "Hippocrates," Dislocations

For Homer well understood that of all grazing animals it is oxen that are most out of condition at the end of winter . . . For other animals can crop the grass when it is short, but the ox cannot until it is long. . . This is why he composed this passage:

And as when spring comes welcome to curly-horned oxen,4

because the long grass is a most welcome sight to them.

1 Mostly ascribed to "Homer." 2 The vase shows a rhapsode performing, with these words coming out of his mouth.

3 "Homer" is here cited as the author of an account of the funeral games for Pelias at Iolcus.

4 Perhaps from the account of Agamemnon's or Menelaus' homecoming in the Nostoi. That epic may also have been the source of the ox simile at Odyssey 4.535 and 11.411.

287


4 Arist. Eth. Nic. 1116b26

Ίτητικώτατον γάρ ό θυμός προς τους κινδύνους- όθεν και "Ομηρος "σθένος έμβαλε θνμωι" (cf. 11. 11.11, 14.151, 16.529) και "μένος και θυμόν έγειρε" (cf. II. 15.594) και "δριμύ δ' ανά ρίνας μένος" (cf. Od. 24.318 sq.) και

έζεσεν α'ιμα.

5 Arist. Pol. 1338a22

ην γάρ ο'ίονται διαγωγήν είναι των ελευθέρων, έν ταύτηι (sc. έν σχολήι) τάττουσιν. διόπερ "Ομηρος ούτως έποί-ησεν

άλλ' οίον ϊμένϊ εστί καλεΐν έπι δαΐτα θάλειαν.

μόνον έστι Newman.

6 Schol. (Τ) II. 24.420b

αδύνατον νεκρών τραύματα μύειν, ως φησιν Αριστοτέλης (fr. 167) είρηκέναι "Ομηρον

μύσεν δέ πέρι βροτόεσσ ώτείλή.

τούτο δέ το ήμιστίχιον ουδέ φέρεται.

288


4 Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics

For the thymos (heart, spirit) is most go-for-it in the face of danger; hence Homer says "(the god) put strength in his thymos," and "roused his fury and thymos," and "acid fury in his nostrils," and

his blood boiled. 5

5 Aristotle, Politics

For it is to leisure that they assign what they consider the lifestyle of free men. This is why Homer wrote:

but (he is?) the sort of man one can invite to the banquet.


I t is impossible for dead men's wounds to close up, as Aristotle says Homer described:

and the bloody wound closed up round the edges.

This half-line does not in fact occur in Homer.

5 None of the phrases quoted occurs exactly in the Iliad or Odyssey, but the first three are probably distorted or conflated recollections of expressions that do.

289


7 Clearchus fr. 90 W. (- οχλον); Philod. De pietate A1679

Obbink (- σκεδάσεις); Diog. Laert. 2.117

ουκ άπ' εμού σκεδάσεις οχλον, ταλαπείριε

πρεσβν;

Fort, αϊτό μοι.

8 Plut. Thes. 32.6

'Hpeaç δε (FGrHist 486 F 2) ύπο Θησέως αυτού περί Άφίδνας άποθανείν τον Άλνκον ίστόρηκε, και μαρτύρια ταντι τα έττη παρέχεται περι τον Άλνκον·

τον εν ενρνχόρωι ποτ Άφίδνηι

μαρνάμενον Θησενς 'Έλενης ενεκ' ήϋκόμοιο

κτείνεν.

9 Chrysippus, SVF ii.251.28

οτι μεν γαρ το λογιστικόν εστίν ενταύθα, δια τούτων εμφαίνεται (ό 7roir/T7jç)-

άλλο δ' ενί στήθεσσι νόος και μήτις άμύμων.

Fort, άλλος ενί - άμείνων

1 0 I d . ii.253.20

πρήσεν ενί στήθεσσιν ερισθενεος Αιος άλκήν

γνώμεναι.

290

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7 Clearchus, On Riddles; Philodemus, On Piety; Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers

"Wil l you not disperse this throng from me, long-suffering old sir?"6

8 Plutarch, Life of Theseus

Hereas7 has recorded that Halycus was killed by Theseus himself at Aphidnae, and as evidence he adduces these verses about Halycus:

whom once in broad-arena'd Aphidna Theseus ki l led as he fought over lovely-haired Helen.

9 Chrysippus, On the Soul

That the reasoning faculty is located there (around the heart), Homer indicates in these verses:

Then another thing in his breast his mind and good ingenuity (conceived).

1 0 Chrysippus, On the Soul

Made flare in his breast the awareness of mighty Zeus' aid.

6 The sources report various wits and philosophers (Charmus, Socrates, Bion) as having used this verse for their own purposes. It is conjectured that Menelaus spoke it to Nestor in the Cypria when he went to consult him, distraught over the loss of Helen. See Dirk Obbink, Philodemus On Piety, Part 1 (Oxford, 1996), 544-548.

7 A fourth-century Megarian historian. Halycus was a Megar-ian local hero.

291


11 Strabo 1.2.4

αλλά μήν ταύτα ye πάντα 6 ποιητής Όδυσσεΐ προσήφεν . . . ούτος yap αύτώι "πολλών δ' ανθρώπων 'ίδεν άστεα και νόον έγνω" (Od. 1.3), ούτος τε . . . ούτος δε ό "πτολίπορθος" άει λεγόμενος και το "Ιλιον ελών

βονλήι και μύθοισι και ήπεροπηίδι τίχνηι.

Cf. eund.13.1.41; Polyaen. 1 prooem. 8; Stob. 4.13.48.

1 2 "Ammonius" in Ii. 21.195 (P.Oxy. 221 ix 1 ; v.93 Erbse)

κ]ύμασ"[ιν] ενκατέλεξα Άχελω[ί'ου] άργνροδ[ί]νίω, έζ ού πάσα θάλασσα.

1 3 Ps.-Plut. De Hörnern 2.20

εΐσί δέ και παρ' αύτώι μεταφοραϊ ποικίλαι, αι μεν άπο εμψύχων έπι έμψυχα, οίον

φθέγζατο δ' ηνίοχος νηος κνανοπρώιροιο

αντί τον ναύτης.

Cf. Anon. De tropis, iii.228.24 Spenge!

1 4 Ps.-Plut. De Homero 2.55

και τουναντίον το ένεργητικόν αντί τού παθητικού-

δωρήσω τρίποδα χρνσονατον,

αντί τού δωρήσομαι.

292


1 1 Strabo, Geography

But Homer connected all of this with Odysseus... For this is the hero that he has "seeing many men's cities and learning their mind', this is the one . . . and this is the one always called "city-sacker," who took Ilion

by his counsel and persuasion and art of deception.

1 2 "Ammonius," commentary on Iliad 21

" I laid (him?) in the [wat]ers of silver-eddying Achelous, from which is the whole sea."

1 3 Pseudo-Plutarch, On Homer

He also has complex metaphors, some from animate to animate things, as in

Then spoke the charioteer of the dark-prowed ship,

instead of "the sailor."

1 4 Pseudo-Plutarch, On Homer

And conversely the active instead of the passive:

" I wil l gift a tripod with gold handles,"

with Scuprjc™ instead of 8<opr/cropai

293


1 5 Amnion, in Porph. Isag., CAG iv(3).9

εκείνοι σοφον ώνόμαζον τον ήντιναονν μετιόντα τέχνην . . . και ό ποιητής-

έπει σοφός ήραρε τεκτων.

Cf. Clem. Strom. 1.25.1 "Ομηρος δέ και τέκτονα σοφον καλεί.

1 6 Ath. 137e

Χόλων δέ τοΐς έν πρυτανείωι σιτονμένοις μάζαν παρέχειν κελεύει, άρτον δέ τοις έορταϊς προσπαρατιθέναι, μιμούμενος τον "Ομηρον και yap εκείνος τους άριστεϊς συν-άγων προς τον Αγαμέμνονα

φύρετο δ' αλφιτα

φησίν.

1 7 Schol. (Τ) II. 9.668b

είλε 8έ την Χκνρον ore εις Αυλίδα έστρατολόγονν, δια τό

είναι εκεί Δόλοπας άποστάντας της ΤΙηλέως αρχής-

έπλεον εις Σ,κνρον Αολοπηιδα.

τότε δε και τον Νεοπτόλεμον έπαιδοποιήσατο.

294


1 5 Ammonius, commentary on Porphyry's Introduction to Aristotle's Categories

They applied the term sophos (wise, clever) to anyone who pursued any kind of s k i l l . . . So Homer:

when the clever builder had constructed i t . 8


Solon says that barley bread should be given to those who take meals in the town hall, with the addition of wheaten bread on festival days; he is copying Homer, for he too, when he brings the heroes together at Agamemnon's quarters, says

and barley meal was mixed.


(Achilles) took Scyros at the time when they were recruiting for Aulis, because there were Dolopes there who had revolted from Peleus' rule:

They sailed to Dolopian Scyros.

That was also when he fathered Neoptolemus.9

8 The wooden horse? 9 The scholiast's story is not in accord with the Cypria or Little

Iliad. The verse fragment, however, may come from one of these epics.

295


18 Schol. Lyc. 86, "ypvvov"

γρννός yap έστιν 6 κορμός. "Ομηρος-

ypvvol μεν δαίοντο, μέγας 8' ήφαιστος ανέστη.

19 Suda θ 448

θωνσσοντίς- νλακτονντες. "Ομηρος-

βαρνβρομα θωνσσοντίς.

296

UNPLACED FRAGMENTS

18 Scholiast on Lycophron

A "stegg" is a log. Homer:

The steggs burned, and a great blaze arose.

19 The Suda

Hallooing: barking. Homer:

With deep-roaring halloos they . . .

C O M P A R A T I V E N U M E R A T I O N

OEDIPODEA

West Kinkel Allen Davies Bernabe 1 1 1 2 2 2 - - -3 2 2 1 1

THEBAID

West Kinkel Allen Davies Bemabe 1-3 1-3 1-3 1-3 1-3 4 - - - 11 5 6 6 8 5 6 5 5 7 10

8 - - "Horn." 3 4 9 - - 5 9 10 7 7 4 6 11 4 4 6 7-8

EPIGONI

West Kinkel Allen Davies Bemabe 1 1 1 1 1 2 Antim. 2 - Antim. 2 4 3 2 2 p.74 5 4 4 4 3 3 5 3 3 2 2

299


ALCMEONIS

West Kinkel Davies Bernabe 1-4 1-4 1-4 1-4

5 5 6 5 6 6 5 6 7 7 7 7

CYPRIA

West Kinkel Allen Bethe Davies Bernabe 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 - 2 2 2 2 3 - - E l - -4 2 3 3 3 3 5 3 4 4 4 4 6 4 5 5 5 5 7 - - 5A dub. 1 6 8 - - D3 - 37 9 5 6 6 6 8 10 6 7 7 7 9 11 - - 8 8 10 12 - 10 C2 12 13 13 - - 5B dub. 2 7 14 8 12 10 11 14 15 7 8 9 9 11 16 9 11 11 13 15 17 - - 11 14 15 18 10 13 12 15 17 19 11 14 13 16/p.75 19,21 20 12 15 14 17 24 21 13 16 B2 adesp. 4 25 22 14 17 15 18 26 23 15 18 18 21 27 24 16 19 19 22 28 25 24 - D4 - 41

300


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AETHIOPIS

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4 6 16 spur. 1 7 6 2 2 2 1 5

LITTLE ILIAD

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SACK OF ILION

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302


RETURNS

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p.58 12 C5 p.75 9

y 10

_ _ test. 2 10 11 1 1 1 1 1 12 - - Atreidai 1 8 11 13 2 2 2 2 2

T£L£GOiVy

West Kinkel Allen Bethe Davies Bernabe 1 - - "Horn." 10 1

Z 3

_ _ 1 1 4 1 1 2 2 ;

5 - - D7 - 4 6 Nostoi 9 1 2 2 5

P I S A N D E R

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303


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P A N Y A S S I S

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1 22 20 1 2 15 15 2 3 16 16 3 4 24 21 13 5 19 19 26 6 1 1 4 7 2 2 5 8 3 3 6 9 4 4 7 10 5 5 8 11 26 23 12 12 7 7 9 13 28 M. dub. 3 31 14 32 M. dub. 2 33 15 10 10 11 16 8 8 10 17 9 9 14 18 30 M. 26 15 19 12 12 16 20 13 13(i) 17 21 14 14 19 22 14.6 13(h) 18 23 17 17 20

304


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24 18 18 23 25 11 11 22 26 6/20/21 6 21/24/25 27 29 M. dub. 1 30 28 25 22ab 27 29 25 22c 28 30 23 25 29

E U M E L U S : Titanomachy

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8 5 5 5 6 9 9 8 10 9 10 8 7 7 8 11 3 3 4 7 12 7 (9) 9 10 13 6 6 6 11 14 4 4 8 4

E U M E L U S : Corinthiaca, Europia, incerta

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305


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MINYAS

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7-8 - - 7 -

CARMEN NAUPACTIUM

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306


West Kinkel Davies 6 4/7 6/7 7 8 7 8 9 8 9 10 9 10 11/12 10 11 13 test. 3

PH OR ON IS

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A D E S P O T A Allen Bethe Davies

West Kinkel pp.147-151 pp. 42-44 "Homerus' 1 - p. 151 -2 - - 29 3 2 1/2 A2A 14 4 - 11 5d 5 4 - 7 6 8 7 8 7 - - Adesp. 5 8 - - Adesp. 8 9 - 14 11 10 - 12 12 11 10 - 25 12 - - -13 12 16 19 14 13 17 22

Bemabe 6 7 8 9

10/11 12

Bemabe 1-2 3 4 5 6

Bemabe Cypria

16

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Allen Bethe Davies Bernabe West Kinkel pp. 147-151 pp. 42-44 "Homerus" Cypria

1 5 - 2 2 3 16 A4 9 38 17 - - 40 18 14 18 27 19 17 25 26

For the Capture of Oichalia, Theseis, Danais, Asius, and Cinaethon my numerations are the same as those of Kinkel, Davies, and Bernabe.

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I N D E X

Acamas, Sack arg. 4; fr. 6 Acarnania, Alcm. 5 Achelesian nymphs, Pany. 23 Achelous, Pany. 2.2; 13.1;

Adesp. 12 Achilles, Cypr. arg. 7-12; fr. 4;

19; 21; 24; Aeth. arg. 1-4; fr. 3 ; L. 11 arg. 3; fr. 2.2; 4.1; Sack arg. 4; Returns arg. 3

Admetus, L. II. 15; 23; Naup. 1.3

Adonis, Pany. 28-29 Adrastea, Phor. 2.4 Adrastus, Theb. 4; 7; 11 Aegisthus, Returns arg. 5; Cin.

4 Aeneas, Ci/pr arg. 1, 11; fr. 28;

L. 11. 19; 30.5; Sack arg. 1 Aethra, L. II. 17; Sac*: arg. 4 Agamedes, 7e/eg. arg. 1 Agamemnon, Cypr. arg. 8-9,

12; fr. 20-21; L. II. 17; Sack 6.1; Returns arg. 1, 3, 5; fr. 10

Agenor son of Pleuron, Asius 6 Agenor son of Antenor, L. //.

16; 27 Aietes, Eum. 17; Naup. 6.1 Aigaion, see Briareos Aison, Returns 6

Aither, Eum. 1 Ajax son of Oileus, Sack arg. 3;

Returns arg. 3 Ajax son of Telamon, Aeth. arg.

3-4; fr. 3; 6; L. 11. arg. 1; fr. 2.1; 3; Sack 2.7

Alcmena, Asius 4 Alexander, see Paris Aloeus, Eum. 17-19; Heges. 1.3 Alyzeus, Alcm. 5 Amazons, Aeth. arg. 1; fr. 1.1;

Thes. 1 Amphiaraus, Theb. 6; 7; Asius 4 Amphilochus, Theb. 8.1 Amphion, Eum. 30; Asius 1.1;

Miny. 3 Ancaeus, Asius 7 Andromache, L. II. 29.2; 30.1;

Sack arg. 4 Antaeus, Pis. 6 Antenor, Cypr. arg. 10 Anticlus, L. II. 13 Antilochus, Aeth. arg. 2, 4 Antiope, Amazon, 77*es. 1 Antiope daughter of Nycteus,

(Cypr. arg. 4); Asius 1.1 Antiope wife of Helios, Eum.

17.2 Aphareus, Cypr. 17

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INDEX

Apheidas, Eum. 32 Aphidna, Cypr. 12; Adesp. 8.1 Aphrodite, Cypr. arg. 1-2, 11;

fr. 5.6; 6.1, 5; Pany. 20.3; 28; Naup. 6.1

Apollo, Epig. 4; Cypr. arg. 7, 9, 11; fr. 15; Aeth. arg. 1, 3 ; fr. 4; Sack arg. 1; Teleg. arg. 2; Pany. 3.2; Eum. 35; Asius 7; Miny. 5; 7.2

Apollonis, Eum. 35 Areas, Eum. 32 Arcesilaus, Teleg. 4 Ares, Aeth. arg. I; Aeth. 1.2;

Teleg. arg. 2; Pany. 3.4 Argo, Argonauts, Eum. 22;

Naup. 4—8 Argos, Theh. 1; Cypr. arg. 7;

(eponym) Returns 8 Ariadne, Cypr. arg. 4 Arion, Tftefc. 11 Artemis, Cypr. arg. 8; fr. 24;

Aeth. arg. 1; Mini/. 6; Naup. 10

Asclepius, Returns 9; Pany. 5; ]Vaup. 10

Ascra, Heges. 1.1, 4 Asopus, Eum. 17.4; 19; 29 Aspis, Pany. 25 Aspledon, Chers. 1.2 Assyrians, Pany. 28 Astyanax, L. II. 18; 29; Sack arg.

4; fr. 3 Ate, Pany. 20.8; 22 Athamas, Asius 3 Athena, Theh. 9; Cypr. arg. 1; fr.

4; L. II. arg. 1, 4; Sack arg. 1, 3; Returns arg. 1, 3; Pis. 7.1; Phor. 6

Athens, Cypr. 12 Atlas, Eum. 7 Atreus, Alcm. 6 Augeas, Tefeg. arg. 1 Aulis, Cypr. arg. 6, 8 Axion, L. II. 26

Bembina, Pany. 6, 7 Boeotus, Asius 2 Borysthenis, Eum. 35 Bounos, Eum. 17.6; 18 Briareos, Eum. 3; 16 Briseis, Cypr arg. 12 Bryges, Teleg. arg. 2 Busiris, Pany. (11)

Cadmus, Theh. 2.3 Calais, Eum. 22 Calchas, Cypr arg. 6-8; Re

turns arg. 2 Callidice, Teleg. arg. 2 Callisto, Eum. 31; Asius 9 Callithoe, Phor. 4.1 Cancer, Pany. 8 Cassandra, Cypr arg. I ; Sack

arg. 1, 3 Castalia, Pany. 2.2 Castor, Cypr arg. 3; fr. 9.1; 12;

16.6; 17; Eum. 22 Centaurs, Pis. 9; see also

Cheiron Cephiso, Eum. 35 Cerynian Hind, Pis. 3; Thes. 2 Charites, see Graces Charon, Miny. 1.2 Cheiron, Cypr. 3-4; Eum. 12; 13 Chryseis, Cypr arg. 12; fr. 24 Cinyras, Cypr. arg. 5 Circe, Teleg. arg. 3-4; fr. 5-6

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INDEX

Claros, Epig. 4 Clytaemestra, Cypr. arg. 8; Re

turns arg. 5 Colchis, Eum. 17.8 Colophon, Epig. 4; Returns arg.

2 Corcyra, Naup. 9 Corinth, Eum. 19; 20; 23; 24 Coroebus, L. II. 24 Cragus, Pany. 24.5 Creon, Oed. 3 Crete, Cypr. arg. 2; (eponym)

Cin. 1 Crisus, Asius 5 Cyclopes, Eum. 6 Cycnus, Cypr. arg. 10 Cyprus, Cypr. arg. 2, 5

Danaans, L. 21 1.2 Danaus, Dan. 1.1 Dardania, L. II. 1.1 Dardanus, Sacfc 4 Deidamea, Cypr. arg. 7; fr. 19 Deinome, L. II. 20 Deiphobus, L. II. arg. 2; Sac/c

arg. 2 Deletes, L. 11. 9 Delphi, Epig. 4 Demeter, Pany. 3.1; 4 Demophon, L. it 17; SOCK arg. 4 Diomedes, Cypr. 27; Aeth. arg.

4; L. 7/. arg. 2, 4; fr. 11; 24; Returns arg. 1

Dionysus, Pany. 10; 20.2-3; Eum. 27

Dolopes, Adesp. 17

Earth, Alan. 3; Cypr. 1.2; Eum. 3; 6

Echion, Sack arg. 2 Egypt, Returns arg. 1 Eïoneus, L. 77. 23 Elaiis, Cypr 26 Elatos, Eum. 32 Electra, Pleiad, Sack 5 Eleusis, Pany. 4 Elis, Teleg. arg. 1 Eos, Dawn-goddess, Aeth. arg. 2 Epeios, L. 77 arg. 4; Asius 5 Ephyra, Eum. 15; 17.5; 19 Epimetheus, Eum. 15 Epopeus, Cypr. arg. 4; Eum.

18-19 Erechtheus, Asius 11 Erichthonius, Dan. 2 Erigone, Cin. 4 Erinys, Theh. 2.8; 11; Miny. 7.9 Eriope, Naup. 1.2 Eriphyle, 77îe£>. 7; Asius 4 Erythea, Pany. 12 Eumelus, Aeth. arg. 4 Europa, Eum. 26; Asius 7 Eurydice, wife of Aeneas, Cypr.

28; L. 77 19 Euryganea, Oed. 1 Eurylyte, Naup. 6.2 Eurypylus son of Euhaemon, L.

II. 26 Eurypylus son of Telephus, L.

77 arg. 3; fr. 7 Eurytus, Pany. (19); his sons,

Creoph. 3

Ganymede, L. 11. 6.4 Getic slave, Returns 13 Glaucus son of Sisyphus, Eum.

24 Glaucus the Lycian, Aeth. arg. 3

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INDEX

Gorgons, Cypr. 30.1 Graces, Cypr. 5.1; 6.5; Pany.

20.1

Hades, Theb. 3.4; Returns 1; Pany. 17-18; 26; Miny. 2-6; 7.4; 19-21

Haemon, Oed. 3 Halycus, Adesp. 8 Harpies, Naup. 3 Hector, Cypr. arg. 10; Aeth. 1.1;

L. II. 30.2 Helen, Cypr. arg. 1-2, 10-11;

fr. 10.1; 11; 12; L. II. arg. 2, 4; fr. 17; 28; Sack arg. 2; Cin. 3; Adesp. 8.2

Helenus, Cypr. arg. 1; L. arg. 2

Helicaon, L. 7i. 22 Helicon, Heges. 1.4 Helios, Eum. 16, 17; his Cup,

Pis. 5; Pany. 12; Eum. 10; his catde, Pany. 16; his horses, Eum. 11

Hephaestus, Cypr. 4; L. II. 6.3; Pany. 3.1; Dan. 2; Phor. 2.5

Hera, Cypr. arg. 1-2; fr. 2; Pany. 8; 26; Eum. 23; Asius 13.2; Phor. 4.2

Heracles, Cypr. arg. 4; Creoph. 1; 2; Pis. 1; 4; 5; 7; 10; 12; Pany. 1; 2; 8; 12; 15; 23; 26; Thes. 2; Eum. 22

Hermes, Cypr. arg. 1; Eum. 17; 30; Phor. 5.1

Hermione, Cypr. arg. 2 Hermioneus, Returns 12.1 Hesperides, Pany. 15; Eum. 9 Hilaeira, Cypr. 15

Hippodamea, Miny. 7.27 Hippolytus, Naup. 10 Horai, Cypr. 5.1; Pany. 20.1 Hundred-Handers, Eum. 6 Hybris, Pany. 20.8, 13; 22 Hydra, Pis. 2; Pany. 8 Hyllus, Pany. 23 Hyperboreans, Epig. 5 Hyperphas, Oed. 1

Icarius, Alan. 5; Asius 10 Ida, Cypr. arg. 1, 11; fr. 6.6;

Sack arg. 1 Idaean Dactyls, Phor. 2 Idas, Cypr arg. 3; fr. 16.7; 17 Idmon, Naup. 5; 6 Ilion, Cypr. arg. 2, 10; L. II. 1.1 Iolcus, Eum. 20; 23; Naup. 9 Iole, Creoph. 1 Iphiclus, Returns 4 Iphigeneia, Cypr. arg. 8; fr. 20 Iris, Cypr arg. 4 Isles of the Blest, Teleg. arg. 4 Isus, Returns 12.1 Ithaca, Teleg. arg. 1-3 Ithas, Eum. 5

Jason, Eum. 22; 23; Cin. 2; Naup. 5; 6.3; 9

Judgment of Paris, Cypr. arg. 1

Kampe, Eum. 6 Kapherian rocks, Returns arg. 3 Kouretes, Dan. 3; Phor. 3 Kronos, Eum. 6; 12; life under

K., Alcm. 7

Laocoon, Sack arg. 1 Laomedon, L. II. 6.4

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Leda, Cypr. I I ; Eum. 25; Asius 6

Leleges, Asius 7 Lemnos, Cypr. arg. 9; L. IX. arg.

2 Leonteus, Returns arg. 2 Lesbos, Aet/i. arg. 1 Leto, Aeth. arg. 1 Leucadius, Alcm. 5 Lycaon, Arcadian, Eum. 31 Lycaon, Trojan, Cypr. arg. 11 Lycia, Pany. 24 Lycomedes, Cypr. 19; h. II. 16 Lycurgus, Eum. 27 Lydia, Pany. 23; Eum. 2 Lynceus, Cypr. arg. 3; fr. 16.1 Lyrnessus, Cypr. arg. 11

Machaon, L. ll. arg. 2; fr. 7; Sack 2

Maira, Returns 5 Manto, Epig. 4 Marathon, Eum. 19-20 Maronea, Returns arg. 4 Medea, Returns 6; Eum. 20; 23;

Cin. 2; Naup. 6-8 Megara, wife of Heracles, Pany.

1 Meges, L. II. 15 Melanippe, Asius 2 Melanippus, Theb. 9 Melas' sons, Afcm. 4 Meleager, Cypr. 22; Miny. 5;

7.10, 24; Adesp. 2 Memnon, Aeth. arg. 2 Menelaus, Cypr. arg. 2, 4-5, 10;

fr. 18; L. II. arg. 2; fr. 28; SOCK arg. 2; Returns arg. 1, 5; Cin. 3

Menestheus, Sack 6.2 Menoitios, Eum. 7 Mermerus, Naup. 9 Meb'on, Asius 11 Midea, Chers. 1.1 Minyas, Returns 4 Mnemosyne (Remembrance),

Eum. 34 Molossians, Returns arg. 4 Mother of the Gods, Dan. 3 Muse, Muses, Epig. 1; Aeth.

arg. 4; Eum. 34; 35 Mycene, Cypr arg. 4; (eponym)

Returns 8 Myconos, Returns arg. 3 My si a, Cypr. arg. 7

Nauplius, Returns 11 Neleus, Eum. 22; 24 Nemean Lion, Pis. 1; Pany. 6; 7 Nemesis, Cypr. 10.2; 11 Neoptolemus, Cypr 19; L. II.

arg. 3; fr. 18; 21; 23; 25; 27; 29.1; 30; Sack arg. 2, 4; Returns arg. 3-4

Nereus, Pany. 12 Nestor, Cypr. arg. 4; fr. 19; Re

turns arg. 1; Eum. 24 Nicostratus, Cin. 3 Nile, Dan. 1.2 Nycteus, Asius 9 Nymphs, Cypr. 6.5; Teleg. arg.

1; Pany. 23; 24.2; Eum. 33

Oceanus, Cypr. 10.10; 30.2; Pis. 5; Pany. 13.2

Odysseus, Cypr. arg. 5, 8-10; fr. 19; 27; Aeth. arg. 1, 3-t; L. II. arg. 1-4; fr. 2.2; 8; 11; 22;

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Sack arg. 4; Returns arg. 4; Teleg. arg. 1-4; fr. 3; 5; Adesp. 11

Oedipus, Theb. 2.2; Cypr. arg. 4

Ogygian nymph, Pany. 24.2 Oichalia, Creoph. 2 Oineus, Theb. 5; Alcm. 4; Cypr.

22; Miny. 7.10 Oino, Cypr. 26 Olenos, Theb. 5 Orestes, Returns arg. 5; Cin. 4 Orion, Miny. 6 Orpheus, Eum. 22 Ouranos, Eum. 1

Palamedes, Cypr. arg. 5,12; fr. 27; Returns 11

Palladion, L. //. arg. 4 fr. 11; Sac* 4

Panopeus, Asius 5 Paris, Cypr arg. 1-2; fr. 14,

Aeth. arg. 3; L. II. arg. 2 Parnassus, Pany. 2.1 Parthenopaeus, Theb. 10 Parthenope, Asius 7 Patroclus, Cypr arg. 11 Pedasus, Cypr arg. 11; fr. 23 Pelasgus, Asius 8.1 Peleus, Alcm. 1.2; Cypr 19;

Eum. 22; his wedding, Cypr. arg. 1; fr. 4; Returns arg. 4

Pelias, Naup. 9 Pelion, Cypr 4 Pelops, Cypr 16.4 Penelope, Teleg. arg. 2, 4; fr. 3;

4; 6; Asius 10 Penthesilea, Aeth. arg. 1 Penthilus, Cin. 4

Periboia, Theb. 5 Periclymenus, 77ie6. 10 Persephone, Pany. 28; Miny.

7.12, 20 Phaedra, Thes. 1 Phaestus, Cin. 1 Phaethon, Eum. 22 Phalacrus, Pany. 16 Phereclus, Cypr. arg. 1; fr. 8 Pheres, Naup. 9 Philoctetes, Cypr. arg. 9; L. //.

arg. 2; fr. 23 Philyra, Eum. 12 Phocus, Asius 5 Phoenicia, Cypr. arg. 2 Phoenix, Cypr. 19; Returns arg.

4; Asius 7 Phoibe, Cypr. 15 Pholos, Pany. 9 Phorbas, Aeth. 4 Phoroneus, Phor. 1 Pinaros, Pany. 24.4 Pirithous, Pany. 17; Miny. 7.5,

9, 28 Pleiades, Sack 5 Pleuron, Asius 6 Pluto, Eum. 6 Podalirius, Sack 2 Polydeuces, Cypr. arg. 3; fr. 9.2;

16.6; Eum. 22 Polydora, Cypr. 22 Polynices, Theb. 2.1; Cypr. arg.

7 Polypoites son of Odysseus,

Teleg. arg. 2 Polypoites son of Pirithous, Re

turns arg. 2 Polyxena, Sock arg. 4 Polyxenus, Teleg. arg. 1

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Poseidon, Sack 2.1; Teleg. arg. 2; Pany. 3.2; Eum. 6; 16; 22; Asius 7; Heges. 1.1; Chers. 1.1

Praxidice, Pany. 24.2 Priam, L. II. 25; Sack arg. 2 Prometheus, Eum. 5 Protesilaus, Cypr. arg. 10; fr. 22 Ptoliporthes, Teleg. arg. 2; fr. 3 Ptous, Asius 3 Pygmalion, Cypr arg. 5 Pylades, Returns arg. 5; Asius 5 Pylos, Pany. 26 Pyrrhus, Cypr. 19; see

Neoptolemus

Rhadamanthys, Cin. 1 Rhakios, Epig. 4

Samos, Asius 7; 13 Sarpedon, island of Gorgons,

Cypr. 30.2 Scaean Gates, Aeih. arg. 3 Scyros, Cypr. arg. 7; fr. 19; L. II.

arg. 3; fr. 4.1; Adesp. 17 Sea (Pontos), Eum. 3 Sibrus, Pany. 24.3 Sicyon, Eum. 19; Asius 11 Sidon, Cypr. arg. 2 Sinon, L. II. arg. 5; fr. 14; Sack

arg. 2 Sinope, Eum. 29 Sisyphus, Returns 5; Pany. 18;

Eum. 23-25 Smyrna, mother of Adonis,

Pany. 28 Sparta, Cypr arg. 2 Spermo, Cypr. 26 Sphinx, Oed. 3

Strife (Eris), Cypr. arg. 1 Stymphalian Birds, Pis. 4 Styx, see Water of Shuddering

Talos, Cin. 1 Talthybius, Cypr. arg. 5, 8 Tantalus, Returns 3 Tartarus, Eum. 6 Tauroi, Cypr arg. 8 Teiresias, Returns arg. 2; Teleg.

arg. 1-2 Telamon, Alcm. 1.1; Pis. 10;

Eum. 22 Telegonus, Teleg. arg. 3-4; fr. 4-

6 Telemachus, Cypr arg. 5; Teleg.

arg. 4; fr. 4; 6 Telephus, Cypr. arg. 7; L. II.

arg. 3; fr. 7 Tenedos, Cypr arg. 9; L. ll. arg.

5; Sack arg. 2; Returns arg. 3 Tennes, Cypr. arg. 9 Tenos, Returns arg. 3 Teucer, Aeth. arg. 4 Teumessian fox, Epig 3 Teuthrania, Cypr. arg. 7 Thamyris, Miny. 3-A Thebes (Troad), Cypr 24 Theias, Pany. 28 Themis, Cypr. arg. 1 Themisto, Asius 3 Thermopylae, Pis. 7.1 Thersander, Cypr. arg. 7 Thersites, Aeth. arg. 1 Theseus, Cypr. arg. 4; fr. 12;

Pany. 17; Eum. 22; Thes. 1; Miny. 7.9, 26; Adesp. 8.2; his sons, L. II. 17; Sacfc arg. 4; fr. 6.1

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INDEX

Thesprotians, Teleg. arg. 2 Thestms, Asius 6 Thetis, Cypr. arg. 9-11; fr. 2-4;

Aeth. arg. 2, 4; Returns arg. 3-4; Eum. 27

Thoas, L. II. 8 Thrace, Returns arg. 4 Thyone, Pany. 10 Tiryns, Adesp. 1 Titans, Eum. 3; 5; 6 Tloos, Pany. 24.4 Tremiles, Pany. 24.1 Triptolemus, Pany. 4 Troilus, Cypr. arg. 11; fr. 25 Trophonius, Teleg. arg. 1 Troy, Cypr. 1.6 Tydeus, Theb. 5; 9; A/cm. 4 Tyndareos, Pany. 5

Tyndarids, Cypr arg. 2-3

Water of Shuddering (Styx), Pany. 18

White Island, Aeth. arg. 4 Wooden horse, L. IX. arg. 4-5;

fr. 12; Sac* arg. 1-2; fr. 1

Xanthus (Lycia), Pany. 24.4 Xenodamus, Eum. 33

Zagreus, Alcm. 3 Zeus, Theb. 3.3; Cypr. arg. 1, 3,

12; fr. 1.3, 7; 10.3, 7; 29; Aeth. arg. 2; L. II. 6.1; Sack arg. 2; Returns arg. 3; fr. 9; Eum. 2; 6-8; 26; 34; Miny. 7.13; Adesp. 10

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